# Speed up Qdrant hybrid inserts by dropping a redundant encode

> Qdrant's async_insert no longer calls the sparse encoder twice. Hybrid inserts now encode once, cutting wasted compute on every write to a Qdrant collection.

- Published: 2026-05-15
- Author: Agno Team
- Category: Changelog
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Qdrant's `async_insert` no longer calls the sparse encoder twice. Hybrid inserts now encode once, cutting wasted compute on every write to a Qdrant collection.