Elastic named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Search

Elastic announced that Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Search, positioning it highest in Ability to Execute and furthest in Completeness of Vision among three designated leaders. Elastic also reported that Gartner’s Critical Capabilities assessment ranked it first for AI Automation, with strong results across other use cases including deep research, context engineering, AI augmentation, digital workspaces, and enterprise applications. The company attributes its position to Elasticsearch’s combination of full-text, semantic, and hybrid search for retrieving structured and unstructured enterprise data, which it presents as a context layer for AI agents and assistants. Elastic highlighted its Agent Builder, Workflows, Jina AI embedding and reader models, and open Agent Skills repository as tools for creating production AI automation, alongside its open-source ecosystem and flexible deployment options. Recent investments include Elastic’s 2025 acquisition of Jina AI, a serverless vector database offering, and planned context-engine, data-federation, evaluation, and model enhancements, while the post notes that Gartner’s research represents analyst opinions rather than endorsements or statements of fact.

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