Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API for apps and websites, offering typo-tolerant full-text search plus vector and AI-ready hybrid retrieval.
58.8k stars2.6k forkslast commit Actively maintained
10 self-hosted Algolia alternatives
Hosted search-as-a-service platform offering managed indexing, ranking, autocomplete, typo-tolerance and search analytics via APIs and SDKs to integrate search into websites and applications.
Alternatives to Algolia
Open-source platform for AI chat, RAG, agents, and enterprise search across your team’s connected knowledge sources, compatible with hosted and local LLMs.
31.2k stars4.3k forkslast commit Actively maintained
Typesense is a developer-friendly search engine for instant, typo-tolerant search-as-you-type with faceting, filtering, geo search, and vector/semantic search APIs.
26.4k stars960 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
ZincSearch is a Go-based, lightweight search engine for full-text indexing with Elasticsearch API-compatible ingestion, a Vue UI, and a schema-less document model.
17.9k stars776 forkslast commit Actively maintained
OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0 open source distributed search and analytics engine for indexing, querying, and analyzing large-scale data with REST APIs.
13.4k stars2.8k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Manticore Search is a fast open-source search database for full-text, faceted, and vector search with SQL (MySQL protocol) and HTTP JSON APIs.
11.9k stars634 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#7
YaCy is a self-hostable search engine with crawler and indexing, supporting decentralized P2P search, standalone search portals, and intranet/file search.
4k stars491 forkslast commit Actively maintained
Scalable enterprise search platform supporting full-text, vector, faceted and geospatial search with SolrCloud clustering and a web admin UI.
1.6k stars847 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
#9
sist2 is a fast, low-memory file system indexer with a web UI for searching file contents and metadata, with Elasticsearch or SQLite backends.
1.3k stars78 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
#10
Fess is an open-source enterprise search server with a built-in crawler, web-based administration, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch-backed full-text search.
1.1k stars173 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
What replacing Algolia actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 10 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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