Vectara

Spec sheet

What it does

The platform supports building agents that search company data, call external APIs, take actions, and retain context across conversation turns.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.vectara.com

Product

Vectara describes itself as an enterprise AI agent platform for governed, grounded, auditable agents.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

API

Vectara provides REST APIs at api.vectara.io/v2 and authenticates requests with API keys or OAuth 2.0.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.vectara.com

Integrations

Documented pipeline sources include S3, Google Drive, SharePoint, Box, Web, Confluence, and SCIM, while messaging connectors include Slack, Google Chat, and Zoom Contact Center.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.vectara.com

Security

Vectara says it does not train its models on customer data and is SOC-2 Type II and HIPAA certified.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Support

Enterprise-tier accounts can receive written uptime and support response-time SLA guarantees through Vectara's online ticketing system.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Founded

2020Read 28 Sep 2026 · vectara.com

Enterprise deployment

Vectara is offered as SaaS, within a customer's VPC, or on premises.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Governance

Vectara says generated agent answers and actions include a factual consistency score and advanced tool validation.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Monitoring

Guardian Agents provide real-time RAG grounding, hallucination scoring, hallucination correction, and observability.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Notable access limitation

Vectara's documentation says source-system permissions do not automatically carry over when records are indexed into a corpus; customers can replicate access metadata and apply query filters.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.vectara.com

Retrieval

Vectara combines agentic document extraction, neural and lexical search, knowledge reranking, and customized generation.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Who it serves

Vectara says enterprises use its platform to build AI agents for mission-critical applications.Read 3 Oct 2026 · vectara.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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