How long does a Vespa Audit typically take?

Typically 1–3 weeks depending on your infrastructure complexity and the depth of analysis needed. We scope the timeline during an initial call before any commitment.

How is the Vespa Audit priced?

The audit is scoped during intake based on infrastructure size, system complexity, and the depth of migration analysis required. If you proceed into a migration engagement with Searchplex, the audit fee is credited toward that work.

Can we go directly to migration without an audit?

Yes, direct migration includes essential audit components. However, a dedicated audit provides deeper insights, clearer ROI, and a smoother overall migration. For larger or more complex stacks, we typically recommend starting with the audit.

What if we're unsure about choosing Vespa Cloud vs. self-hosted?

That is one of the core questions the audit is designed to answer. We assess your infrastructure, compliance requirements, data residency needs, team operational capacity, and cost factors to recommend the most suitable deployment model — with the reasoning made explicit.

Will the audit disrupt our current operations?

No. The audit involves passive analysis of your existing setup without disruption. We work from documentation, architecture diagrams, query patterns, and focused technical conversations with your team — no access to live production systems is required.

Do we have to migrate to Vespa immediately after the audit?

No. The audit provides you with clear information to decide whether and when to proceed. Some teams use it to validate a decision already made. Others use it to build the business case internally. There is no obligation to continue with Searchplex after the audit.

Official Vespa.ai Partner

A Vespa-specific audit for teams already evaluating migration

This is not the vendor-neutral Search Stack Audit. It is the later-stage diagnostic for teams that are already seriously considering Vespa and need clarity on readiness, deployment model, migration risk, and roadmap before implementation starts.

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What we'll review

Cluster Sizing & Deployment Planning

Evaluate cluster needs, assess deployment model trade-offs, and determine the appropriate Vespa deployment model based on scale, reliability, and operational constraints.

Migration Planning and Risk Review

Understand timelines, technical risks, and resource needs for migration readiness. Identify blockers and effort trade-offs across phases.

Architecture Fit & Feature Gap Analysis

Evaluate whether Vespa's built-in capabilities align with your product requirements and how to address any functionality gaps.

Schema & Query Design Readiness

Review data model requirements, indexing needs, and expected query complexity to guide future schema design.

What you'll get

Deliverable 01

Migration Readiness Assessment

A documented assessment of how ready your current stack, team, and requirements are for a serious Vespa migration.

Deliverable 02

Migration Roadmap

A phased plan outlining how to move from the current stack to Vespa with clear sequencing, dependencies, and risk controls.

Deliverable 03

Deployment Model Recommendation

A reasoned recommendation across Vespa Cloud, Vespa Enclave, or self-hosted based on scale, operating model, compliance, and cost structure.

Deliverable 04

Migration Risk Review

A clear view of technical risks, integration gaps, and the migration constraints most likely to affect cost, timing, or rollout safety.

Deliverable 05

Implementation Scope

A concrete view of what the implementation program would involve if you proceed, including likely workstreams, effort shape, and next step.

If your team is still deciding between modernization, migration, or a new build, start with the vendor-neutral Search Stack Audit. This page is for teams already focused on Vespa as a serious candidate.

Optional add-ons

Extend the scope when you need more depth.

Cost & Scale Modeling

We size and compare equivalent Vespa clusters across Vespa Cloud, Vespa Enclave, and self-hosted OSS based on traffic, data volume, redundancy, and growth assumptions. For very large self-hosted environments, this may include enterprise-grade Kubernetes operational models. We model projected infrastructure costs and operational trade-offs to support an informed decision.

Innovation Recommendations

Identify unexplored opportunities to utilize advanced Vespa capabilities for your business — from ML-powered ranking to hybrid retrieval strategies, multimodal search, and agentic retrieval patterns that your current stack cannot support.

Why start here

Why start with an audit?

Know if Vespa is actually the right move

Replace assumption with a clear view of whether Vespa fits the workload, the team, and the operating model before committing to migration.

Surface migration risk before delivery starts

Identify the architectural gaps, rollout constraints, and migration blockers early enough to change the plan while it is still cheap.

Choose the right deployment model

Use the audit to decide between Vespa Cloud, Vespa Enclave, and self-hosted with the reasoning made explicit.

Start implementation with a real roadmap

Leave with a migration roadmap your team can use to decide timing, scope, budget, and whether Searchplex should lead the implementation.

Possible next steps after a successful audit

Move into migration

For teams ready to proceed with a structured Vespa migration.

Migration to Vespa →

Run a focused Vespa POC

For teams that need technical proof before committing to a larger move.

Vespa POC →

Audit proof

A Vespa audit in practice.

IPRally engaged Searchplex to review a live Vespa-based patent search platform before the next stage of scale and optimization.

Patent Search / Intellectual Property Technology

IPRally: Vespa Architecture Audit for a Production Patent Search Platform

Searchplex reviewed architectural decisions across search behavior, wildcard queries, patent data representation, infrastructure, and performance analysis practices for a live patent search system already running in production.

Read case study →★ 5.0 on Clutch

Why Searchplex

Why teams trust Searchplex with Vespa readiness decisions

A decade of retrieval depth

Our team brings over a decade of experience designing, building, and scaling production retrieval systems — including legal search, patent discovery, and enterprise hybrid search.

Real Vespa expertise in-house

Real Vespa expertise within our core team — rarely seen elsewhere — with hands-on experience across both self-hosted and Vespa Cloud deployments. Not outsourced, not learned from documentation.

Delivering in production since 2023

Actively delivering Vespa-based search solutions in production since 2023, including a multi-lingual legal search system and enterprise-scale patent retrieval.

Official implementation partner

Official Vespa.ai Implementation Partner — recognized by the Vespa team for our depth of expertise and track record of successful production deployments.

Client reviews

Verified by the work.

★ 4.8 on Clutch

“The Vespa audit was thorough, clearly structured, and addressed exactly what we needed—performance, scalability, and cost optimization. Their depth of search expertise and clear communication stood out throughout the engagement.”

Antti TarvainenCTOIPRally — patent search engine

Verified on Clutch

★★★★★

“Searchplex delivered a hybrid, multilingual search solution that elevated our document retrieval system, resulting in faster & more precise searches across multiple languages. This capability was crucial for our legal tech needs.”

Luca CampanellaCTOCuratedAI — legal technology startup

Verified on Clutch

★★★★★

FAQ

Vespa readiness audit — common questions.

What teams typically ask before using a Vespa-specific migration readiness audit.

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Need a serious answer on whether Vespa is the right move?

Searchplex uses this audit to help teams decide whether Vespa fits the workload, which deployment model makes sense, and what an implementation program would really require.

Vespa migration readiness audit — fit assessment, deployment decision, migration risk review, and roadmap.

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