# How DeviantArt uses Vespa

**1 billion** documents managed in the deployment

As published on [vespa.ai](https://vespa.ai/case-studies/wix-case-study/), August 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [DeviantArt](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/deviantart.md)
- Tool: [Vespa](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/vespa.md)
- Industry: [Media & Publishing](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/media-publishing.md)

## The use case: how DeviantArt deploys Vespa

DeviantArt, a Wix subsidiary and online art community, uses Vespa as a single serving layer for search, recommendations and personalized content discovery. It combines machine learning ranking, custom query processing and document enrichment over a very large, constantly changing catalog of artworks.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Vespa and DeviantArt, not ours.

> Today, the deployment manages more than 1 billion documents and serves nearly 4,000 queries per second, with an average query latency of 12 milliseconds.

- **12 milliseconds**: “with an average query latency of 12 milliseconds”

> At DeviantArt, discovery is fundamental to the user experience. With hundreds of millions of artworks, rapidly changing content, and highly diverse user interests, we needed a platform capable of combining machine learning, personalization, and real-time serving performance at a very large scale. Vespa gives us the flexibility to integrate custom ranking models, user context, and domain-specific processing within a single high-performance system, which is critical for delivering responsive and relevant experiences across our global community.
>
> Chris Nell, CTO, DEVIANTART

Source: [vespa.ai](https://vespa.ai/case-studies/wix-case-study/), captured 2026-10-07.

## Vespa users in Media & Publishing

- [Qwant](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/qwant.md) — Observed
- [Yahoo](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/yahoo.md) — Observed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 1 billion is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of DeviantArt.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: DeviantArt uses Vespa. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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