Overview
Metal is a production-ready, fully-managed ML retrieval platform for professional users and developers seeking a tool to find meaning in unstructured data with embeddings. It includes a vector database and critical components for common LLM applications.
Features
- Managed Service: Build AI products without managing infrastructure - hosting and high availability handled automatically
- REST API: Simple and straightforward API available at https://api.getmetal.io
- ANN Queries: Convenient /search endpoint for running approximate nearest neighbor queries
- Integrations: Built-in support for OpenAI, CLIP, and other embedding models
- SDK Support: TypeScript/JavaScript SDK available via npm (@getmetal/metal-sdk)
API Capabilities
- Text and Image Indexing: Support for indexing from URLs or Base64-encoded data
- Search with Filtering: Advanced search with metadata filtering capabilities
- Metadata Support: Custom metadata fields for enriched search results
- Authentication: Metal API Keys for secure access to API and SDKs
Integration
Metal integrates with:
- JavaScript and TypeScript applications
- LangChain framework
- OpenAI embeddings
- Various LLM providers
Use Cases
- Building LLM applications with memory
- Semantic search over unstructured data
- Recommendation systems
- Document similarity search
- Image search with CLIP embeddings
Pricing
Starts at $25 per month with a free account available to get started.
