Metal

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.