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Antfly

Antfly builds a self-learning retrieval engine that unifies vector, keyword, and graph search with built-in inference for AI agents.

Operating headquarters
Portland, OR, US🇺🇸
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2026
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antfly.io·Crawled Oct 11, 2026·

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Product

6 pages
  1. Antfly Cloud/cloud

    Hosted Antfly, without the ops. Every account comes with inference credits to start.

  2. Architecture/architecture

    One engine, not a stack. retrieval = engine(data + storage + indexing + query), and you control all of it.

  3. Download Antfly/download

    Install Antfly with one command, then run the quickstart. Free in standalone mode, single binary, macOS and Linux.

  4. Retrieval Engine/engine

    Antfly stores your documents, builds full-text, vector, and graph indexes over them, and runs the embedding and reranking models those indexes need, in one process.

Blog

6 pages
  1. Agents · Learn/learn/agents

    Give an agent retrieval that stays quiet without evidence, fits a token budget, and connects over MCP.

  2. Building Knowledge Graphs/events/building-knowledge-graphs

    A hands-on workshop on turning documents into a graph of people, things, and the relationships between them.

  3. Guides/docs/guides

    Step-by-step guides for building with Antfly

  4. Learn/learn

    Paths through the Antfly docs: the guides in the order the work happens, a checkpoint after every page, and a capstone at the end.

Press

3 pages
  1. Antfly 0.2/releases/v0.2

    Relevant information doesn't always look like a nearest neighbor. Antfly combines vector, full-text, and graph indexes with native document processing and inference, so you can choose and combine retrieval methods for your data.

  2. Releases/releases

    Explore Antfly release benchmarks, measured improvements, and the workloads behind the results.

  3. The Weekly Recall/recall

    The Weekly Recall: the week in AI, read with a data and retrieval lens. One email a week.

Pricing

3 pages
  1. Cloud Billing and Usage/docs/cloud/billing-usage

    Plans, committed capacity, credit usage, spend limits, estimates, and usage records.

  2. Pricing/pricing

    Unlimited retrieval. Buy capacity, not queries: private Antfly Cloud instances start at $79/instance/mo with no query meter, built-in AI inference, RBAC, SSO, and autoscaling.

  3. Subscriptions/docs/cloud/api/subscriptions

    Subscription management

Comparison

1 page
  1. Antfly vs the Competition/vs

    See how Antfly compares to Chroma, Pinecone, Elasticsearch, and more across search, AI, and data capabilities.

Team

6 pages
  1. AJ Roetker/team/aj

    AJ Roetker, CTO at Antfly.

  2. Boris Popadiuk/team/boris

    Boris Popadiuk, Founding Engineer at Antfly.

  3. Drew Lanenga/team/drew

    Drew Lanenga, Head of Growth at Antfly.

  4. James McDermott/team/james

    James McDermott, CEO at Antfly.

About

1 page
  1. About/about

    Why Antfly exists, what we believe about building databases for the AI era, and the team behind AntflyDB and Antfly Inference.

Contact

1 page
  1. Enterprise/contact-sales

    Antfly for enterprise: dedicated instances or bring your own cloud, custom SLA, SOC 2 and HIPAA, and a direct line to the core team. Contact sales to scope your deployment.

Homepage

2 pages
  1. Homepage/

    There's a simpler way to ground your AI. Antfly works out of the box: the retrieval pipeline with zero pipes. Bring whatever data you have. Start in the cloud, or run it locally, free.

  2. Homepage/

    There's a simpler way to ground your AI. Antfly works out of the box: the retrieval pipeline with zero pipes. Bring whatever data you have. Start in the cloud, or run it locally, free.

Privacy

1 page
  1. Antfly: Self-learning retrieval for agents/privacy

Terms & Conditions

4 pages
  1. Antfly: Self-learning retrieval for agents/terms
  2. Elastic License 2.0/licensing/ELv2-license

    The Elastic License 2.0 governing Antfly and its public repositories.

  3. License FAQ/licensing/license-FAQ

    Common questions about the Elastic License 2.0 and how it applies to Antfly.

  4. Licenses/licensing

    Antfly products are available under open and source-available licenses so you can build with confidence.

Coverage

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  1. Antfly Raises $2M to Ease AI Data Retrievalcdpinstitute.org/news/antfly-raises-funding-to-ease-ai-data-retrieval-jjbp9a/

    Antfly raises $2 million to build infrastructure that reduces the burden on developers creating custom data-retrieval systems for AI agents.

    Sep 2026 · CDP InstituteNews article

  2. Antfly Raises $2M in Pre-Seed Fundingfinsmes.com/2026/09/antfly-raises-2m-in-pre-seed-funding.html

    Antfly, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of a retrieval engine for AI, raises $2 million in pre-seed funding.

    Sep 2026 · FinSMEsNews article

  3. Antfly Raises $2M Pre-seedthesaasnews.com/news/antfly-raises-2m-pre-seed/

    Antfly raises a $2 million pre-seed round led by Heavybit. The company aims to streamline data infrastructure for AI agents and eliminate complex retrieval pipeline development.

    Sep 2026 · The SaaS NewsNews article

  4. Antfly Raises $2 Million Led by Heavybit to Build the Retrieval Engine for AIsignalnewsdesmoines.com/press-releases/53182/antfly-raises-2-million-led-by-heavybit-to-build-the-retrieval-engine-for-ai/

    Antfly raises $2 million led by Heavybit to build a retrieval engine for AI. The company describes its goal as unifying an organization’s scattered context in one secure, governed layer for AI agents.

    Sep 2026 · SignalNews Des MoinesNews article