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The fully managed vector database for production AI

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Best For

Startup founders and enterprise teams building RAG pipelines who need a managed vector database with no infrastructure to run

Developers building semantic search or recommendation systems who need fast similarity search at scale

Teams shipping AI features quickly who want a purpose-built vector store rather than adding extensions to Postgres

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