About Vectara
Vectara is an Enterprise Agent Platform for building production-grade AI agents and assistants that retrieve knowledge, reason over context, use tools, and deliver grounded answers with step-level audit trails, fine-grained access controls, real-time policy and factual-consistency enforcement. Our agents work with enterprise data, support governed workflows, and move from prototype to production without requiring every team to build its own retrieval, generation, orchestration, and observability stack.
With built-in multi-modal retrieval, orchestration, and always-on governance, Vectara supports SaaS, VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments, so teams can choose the environment that fits their security, compliance, and data-control requirements. Deploy in your preferred environment, while maintaining complete data control. Your data remains secure because Vectara never trains on customer data.
Why enterprises use Vectara
Enterprise teams use Vectara to transform their documents and data into intelligent AI agents that provide accurate, instant answers while supporting enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance) by:
- Reducing information search time significantly.
- Deploying production-ready AI in a few days flexibly, including SaaS, cloud, VPC, or private on-premises environments for complete data control.
- Reducing AI hallucinations with grounded responses.
- Monitoring AI agents with always-on AI governance.
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Start building with Vectara
For technical teams building with Vectara, integrate powerful RAG capabilities into your applications with simple REST APIs and pre-built components.
- Complete the developer quickstart and use Vectara to ground answers in your data in a few minutes.
- Build your first agent.
- Try the Vectara REST APIs directly in your browser.
- View API quick start to upload a file and query the data.
- Explore our developer resources to accelerate integration and see examples for common use cases.
Need complete data control?
For organizations with specific compliance, security, or infrastructure requirements, Vectara offers private deployment options including traditional on-premises, VPC, and air-gapped environments.
AI agents and assistants
Build intelligent conversational systems that go beyond simple question-and-answer:
- Conversational assistants: Natural dialogue interfaces that understand context and maintain conversation state.
- AI agents: Autonomous systems that search, reason, and take actions through conversations. Work with text, documents, and images through multi-modal capabilities.
- Multi-turn interactions: Experiences that remember previous exchanges and provide coherent responses.
Enterprise-ready security
Vectara is built for production environments where mission-critical applications require accuracy, security, and complete data control. Our key enterprise capabilities include:
- Zero training on customer data: Your content remains private and secure.
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA certification: Meets enterprise-grade security and compliance standards.
- Fine-grained access control: Role-based permissions and audit logging.
- Flexible deployment: Choose SaaS for simplicity or private deployment for complete data control, including VPC and on-premises options.
- Centralized governance: Unified platform to manage AI agents with comprehensive observability.
Recommended next steps
If you're new to Vectara, here are some other ideas:
- Build your first agent. Sign up for an account here and start your 30-day free trial.
- Ground answers in your data. Complete the developer quickstart to upload content and query it.
- Explore our private deployment options for enterprise deployments or start your Evaluation Process for complete data sovereignty and compliance.
- View some Vectara applications, demos, and video tutorials.