Marqo alternatives

Marqo's open-source multimodal (text + image) vector search engine is deprecated and gets no further updates; the company now sells an AI-native ecommerce search and product discovery platform with personalization from clickstream and purchase data. Full Marqo record →

What the maintainers say

Marqo's README says the open-source project is deprecated and will receive no further updates; no official successor is named.

Sources: github.com · checked 2026-10-26

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