Practical overview
When it fits
Use Supavec when building an application that needs to retrieve relevant content from supplied files and provide it through chat APIs, especially when configurable chunking, file-based filters, or selectable response streaming matter.
Who it is for
- Developers building document question-answering services or RAG applications.
- Teams integrating file-filtered vector retrieval and chat responses into a product.
- Implementers who want an open-source TypeScript project with web and API development components.
Documented uses
- Build a document question-answering service using vector search and chat endpoints.
- Provide streaming or standard chat responses from retrieved material.
- Tune text chunking and overlap before embedding.
- Retrieve against selected files using file filters alongside cosine similarity.
- Develop a knowledge base with documented team-level data isolation.
Requirements & limits
The project identifies a cloud version at supavec.com and publishes an open-source repository under the Apache-2.0 license. The repository documents Bun commands for development startup.
- The documented stack includes Next.js, Supabase, Bun, and Upstash.
- Chat responses can be selected as streaming or standard.
- Chunking and overlap are configurable, and retrieval combines file filtering with cosine similarity.
- The repository describes team-level data isolation using row-level security.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Start Supavec development services
Install project dependencies and start the general, web, or API development server.
Before you start
- The Supavec repository
- Bun
Steps
Run
bun iin the repository to install dependencies.Run
bun devto start the development server, or usecd apps/web && bun run devfor the web server.Use
cd packages/api && bun run devto start the API server.
Expected outcome
The documented development command starts the selected Supavec service.
Guide limitations
- These instructions describe development startup, not production deployment.
- The commands do not document a complete ingestion or chat-client workflow.
Compare options for Vector search
These projects document a common task and share a project role. This is a source-based comparison, not an execution benchmark or a guarantee of interchangeability.
| Project | Documented purpose | Platform | Access and requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supavec | Build a document question-answering service using vector search and chat endpoints. | Cloud, Self-hosted, Server, Web | The project identifies a cloud version at supavec.com and publishes an open-source repository under the Apache-2.0 license. The repository documents Bun commands for development startup. |
| Chatbot with PDF for Semantic Search | Prepare document content as embeddings and save it to a supported vector database. | Web | The repository is identified as open source and publicly visible on GitHub. |
| AI LLM Playground | Ask questions about PDF documents through an assistant interface. | Web |
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 8 October 2026
- Original website title
- supavec/supavec · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

