Sinequa
Hybrid retrieval combining dense vector + keyword + graph traversal + multimodal. Agentic RAG grounding AI agents in internal knowledge. SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliant.
Acquired · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 54 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Hybrid retrieval + agentic RAG vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Enterprise-search adjacencies
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Enterprise only vendor fix
- Funding
- Acquired by ChapsVision · 2024-11 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise connectors + entitlements + governance + RAG-grounding
Anti-fit: not for SMB / consumer use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Strong in regulated industries (defense, finance, life sciences) — compliance and security posture is the differentiator.
Cons
Heavyweight enterprise install; smaller developer community; AI features lag pure-play AI search products.
Claims & capabilities
SPARK Matrix Leader Q4 2025; Gartner-cited for powering AI assistants.
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST, SDK: JS/TS
- Backend storage
- custom
- Deployment
- Both
- Embedding model
- locked
- Multi-tenancy
- On-premises / private-cloud tenant / fully-managed SaaS — customer choice; Azure-region selectable
- MCP
- yes — Sinequa MCP Server exposing 200+ connectors and search to MCP clients
- A2A
- no Google A2A (Agent2Agent) integration documented as of 2026-05.
- OpenTelemetry
- no first-party OpenTelemetry exporter documented; standard logs/metrics typically available.
Alternatives to Sinequa → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
Other enterprise-search adjacencies in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Glean T1
Enterprise search with 100+ connectors. Personalised per-user knowledge graph. No governance layer.
- Clarivate T1
Bibliographic metadata curation (Web of Science, Derwent, Cortellis). Human editorial governance + journal-deindexing. Memory-adjacent — included as a curated-knowledge baseline.
- Coveo T1
RAG-as-a-Service for AWS (Dec 2025) via hosted MCP server grounding Amazon Bedrock agents in enterprise knowledge. Passage retrieval + answer generation + ranked search + fetch in one API.
- Lucidworks Conversational Q&A AI Agent T1
Enterprise Q&A agent powered by Luci patent-pending ultra-precise RAG. Embeds on product detail pages; consumes technical PDFs, spec sheets, images, tables, charts, graphs and product manuals. Maintains session history for multi-turn follow-ups; refuses out-of-scope queries via prompt-injection guard.
- Meilisearch T2
Semantic + hybrid search GA (2025). Automatic embedding generation + caching via OpenAI / HuggingFace / Ollama. Multi-modal (text + images); hybrid rank fusion; conversational RAG built in.
- Mindbreeze InSpire T2
Hybrid keyword + vector retrieval with entitlement-aware filtering. Unified enterprise knowledge graph linking documents, tickets, records. RAG prompt orchestration built in.
Sources (53 cited facts, 4 third-party)
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- What it is Hybrid retrieval + agentic RAG vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Hybrid retrieval combining dense vector + keyword + graph traversal + multimodal. Agenti… vendor
- Claims / benefits SPARK Matrix Leader Q4 2025; Gartner-cited for powering AI assistants. vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2024-11 third-party
- Funding Acquired by ChapsVision · 2024-11 third-party
- Customers / scale 201-500 ppl no data (acquired by ChapsVision Nov 2024) third-party
- Pricing Enterprise only vendor
- Compliance ISO 27001; GDPR-compliant vendor
- Data handling Customer data encrypted AES-256 at rest; BYOK option; TLS in transit; no evidence of ven… vendor
- Deployment Both vendor
- HQ FR third-party
- Founders / pedigree Sinequa (Alexandre Bilger, CEO; Paris-based; enterprise software) vendor
- Memory volume / scale internal — undisclosed enterprise scale (Fortune 500 deployments) vendor
- Performance SPARK Matrix Leader Q4 2025; Gartner-cited for AI assistants. No public neutral benchmark. vendor
- API surface REST, SDK: JS/TS vendor
- Backend storage custom vendor
- Multi-tenancy On-premises / private-cloud tenant / fully-managed SaaS — customer choice; Azure-region … vendor
- Encryption AES-256 at rest; TLS in transit; SOC 2 Type II annually + ISO 27001 vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO + RBAC vendor
- Embedding model locked vendor
- Tombstoning soft-delete only vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- MCP support yes — Sinequa MCP Server exposing 200+ connectors and search to MCP clients vendor
- Import / export JSON via REST API (vendor docs). vendor
- Validated verticals financial-services, healthcare, legal, internal IT, KM, contact center vendor
- Time to running <1week to weeks-to-months (enterprise procurement + connectors) vendor
- Anti-fit not for SMB / consumer use cases vendor
- Optimised for enterprise connectors + entitlements + governance + RAG-grounding vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure requires connector setup + identity provider + LLM vendor
- Pros Strong in regulated industries (defense, finance, life sciences) — compliance and securi… vendor
- Cons Heavyweight enterprise install; smaller developer community; AI features lag pure-play A… vendor
- Project & sources sinequa.com vendor
- obs-langsmith no vendor
- obs-helicone no vendor
- obs-weave no vendor
- obs-langfuse no vendor
- obs-arize no vendor
- obs-custom Enterprise search platform first-party dashboards vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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