Datafari vs Mindbreeze InSpire

Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution made by France Labs for finding company data across sources and formats. Its crawlers collect content and metadata, with configurable processing filters and crawl-load management. Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks, and email. A plugin mechanism allows connectors for additional sources.

Search features include multilingual support, spellchecking, suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and autocomplete. Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department. Datafari supports hybrid and vector search, faceted search, and a REST query interface. Neural Datafari adds vector search and retrieval-augmented answers grounded in documents the user is authorized to access. The free Community plan is aimed at developers and DIY users; its support is DIY. The Initial plan costs $9,900 a year and includes customer support.

Mindbreeze InSpire is an AI-powered enterprise search and insight engine that analyzes company information and presents it in context. It connects enterprise information into a unified knowledge foundation while preserving existing permissions. Listed capabilities include fact extraction, classification, natural-language question answering, LLM support, RAG, and a relevance model. Mindbreeze says InSpire connects to more than 500 data sources, including shared folders, SharePoint, and ECM systems; workplace integrations include Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Salesforce. Deployment options include SaaS, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, hybrid environments, and an on-premises appliance. Access controls apply to documents, entities, and fields, with SSO options including SAML, AAD/AD FS, and CAS. The product is paid, with no free plan and a free trial listed. The 1M tier costs $103,700 a year and starts at EUR 83 000 p/year; it covers up to 1,000,000 documents or information objects, with limits on users, queries per second, Insight Services calls, and usage. Other listed tiers have prices on request.