Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Google Custom Search

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AI Autocomplete Blogging Custom Search Custom Search Engine Databases Developer Tools Internet Search Search API Search Engine Security & Privacy Web Search

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Google Custom Search are Algolia, Apache Solr, and Meilisearch. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Algolia Landing Page
1

Algolia

Algolia's Search API makes it easy to deliver a great search experience in your apps & websites. Algolia Search provides hosted full-text, numerical, faceted and geolocalized search.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search API #Custom Search #Custom Search Engine 3 social mentions
Apache Solr Landing Page
2

Apache Solr

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine 17 social mentions
Meilisearch Landing Page
3

Meilisearch

Ultra relevant, instant, and typo-tolerant full-text search API
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Custom Search Engine #Custom Search 3 social mentions
Manticore search Landing Page
4

Manticore search

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Pricing:
- Open Source
#Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine 8 social mentions
Typesense Landing Page
5

Typesense

Typo tolerant, delightfully simple, open source search 🔍
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine 51 social mentions
Kagi Landing Page
6

Kagi

Kagi is a privacy-focused, user-centric search engine. Great search experience starts with Kagi!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Security & Privacy #Privacy Search Engine 120 social mentions
Hacker News Search Landing Page
7

Hacker News Search

a faster hnsearch
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1911 social mentions
DuckDuckGo Landing Page
8

DuckDuckGo

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1668 social mentions
Sphinx Search Landing Page
9

Sphinx Search

Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed with performance, relevance (search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in files, an SQL database, NoSQL storage.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Custom Search Engine #Full-text Search 10 social mentions
Qdrant Landing Page
10

Qdrant

Qdrant is a high-performance, massive-scale Vector Database for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Databases #Machine Learning #Mlops 38 social mentions
Vespa.ai Landing Page
11

Vespa.ai

Store, search, rank and organize big data
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Custom Search Engine #Custom Search 19 social mentions
Lucene Landing Page
12

Lucene

Search Engines
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Custom Search Engine #Custom Search #Search Engine 21 social mentions