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The Magic Quadrant™ analyzed 11 vendors based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Elastic was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Search.
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We believe this recognition reflects Elastic's commitment to:
- Delivering a mature, enterprise-ready search platform. Elastic provides the flexibility organizations need to deploy self-managed, SaaS, and serverless options at scale. Our proven foundation is trusted by roughly 18,000 medium and large enterprises across industries and geographies.
- Serving as the foundational context layer for AI agents and assistants. By combining full-text, semantic, and hybrid search to retrieve the most relevant information, Elastic helps organizations ground AI experiences in trusted context across structured and unstructured data.
- Enabling production-ready AI automation across a broad range of enterprise use cases by combining high-precision retrieval, agentic workflows, and developer tools that help organizations build, deploy, and scale reliable AI experiences in production.
- Advancing enterprise AI retrieval through continued innovation in vector search, serverless, and agentic development. These innovations are supported by the Jina AI acquisition, Elastic Agent Builder, and a roadmap that includes a native Context Engine and managed model distillation.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Search, Tim Nelms, Sr Director Analyst, Stephen Emmott, Sr Director Analyst, Darin Stewart, VP Analyst, Jed Cawthorne, Director Analyst, 5, October, 2026
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