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Deep Lake

Multimodal database for AI — vectors plus raw data, versioned.

Category
Vector DB
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
API
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 12, 2026

Deep Lake, by Activeloop, is a database for AI that stores vectors alongside raw multimodal data — text, image, video, audio, and metadata — in a single version-controlled format. It supports cross-modal queries and can stream data straight into training, and its open-source core can be self-hosted or run as a managed service. The newer Deep Lake PG unifies a serverless Postgres with its vector and tensor engine.

Pros & cons

  • Open-source core (self-host or cloud)
  • Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
  • Data versioning + streaming to training
  • Serverless Postgres + vector engine
  • Smaller community than Pinecone/Qdrant
  • No public pricing on managed tier
  • More a data engine than a drop-in DB

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