Neeva AI (now part of Snowflake)

No. Neeva announced the shutdown of its consumer search engine in May 2023, citing the difficulty of convincing mainstream users to pay for search when Google is free. The consumer site was taken offline in June 2023. Snowflake announced its acquisition of Neeva in May 2023 and said it planned to use Neeva's search innovations across its Data Cloud. If you are looking for Neeva-style ad-free AI search today, alternatives include Perplexity, Brave Search, and DuckDuckGo with AI integrations.

Snowflake Cortex Search is an enterprise AI search feature inside Snowflake that provides low-latency, high-quality fuzzy search over a company's own Snowflake data. For Snowflake customers building internal AI assistants, knowledge bases, or RAG applications, Cortex Search provides the retrieval layer. Snowflake's Cortex Search documentation does not describe it as built on Neeva, so we do not claim a direct lineage.

Neeva's founders openly addressed this in their shutdown blog post. The core challenges were: paid consumer search faces an enormous hurdle against free Google; acquiring subscribers one at a time was cost-prohibitive; and convincing people that ad-free search matters enough to pay monthly proved harder than expected. Technically, Neeva's product was strong and was praised by reviewers. Commercially, the business model never scaled fast enough to compete. It is a classic story of good product, wrong market fit for the pricing model.

As a consumer, no, the search engine is discontinued. As an enterprise, Snowflake said it planned to use Neeva's search innovations across its Data Cloud, and Snowflake customers can use Snowflake Cortex Search, though Snowflake's documentation does not describe it as a Neeva product. Contact Snowflake sales for enterprise deployments. For casual users wanting the Neeva experience, Perplexity and Brave Search are the closest spiritual successors and are actively developed.

They were contemporaries in the AI search space, with Neeva launching first (2020) as a subscription search engine and Perplexity launching later (2022) as a freemium AI answer tool. Both used LLMs to generate cited summaries, but Perplexity chose a freemium model and aggressive product development, while Neeva stuck with paid subscriptions. Perplexity succeeded where Neeva struggled, and is now the category leader. Former Neeva leadership remains influential in AI: Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy has been Snowflake's CEO since February 2024.

For consumer AI search with citations, Perplexity is the clearest successor and is widely considered the category leader. Brave Search offers strong privacy and AI features in a free tier. ChatGPT with web search and Gemini with Deep Research provide conversational AI search within broader assistant products. For enterprise data search, Snowflake Cortex Search is Snowflake's current option, though its documentation does not describe it as Neeva-based. Your choice depends on whether you want consumer AI search or enterprise internal-data AI.