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12 self-hosted alternatives to Manticore Search (2026)

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).

License: GPL-3.0 · Language: Docker/deb/C++/K8S

Websurfx

Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. It is extremely fast and provides a high level of customization (alternative to SearX).

AGPL-3.0Rust/Docker

ZincSearch source

Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch).

Apache-2.0Go/Docker/K8S

Aleph source

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.

MITDocker/K8S

Apache Solr source

Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.

Apache-2.0Java/Docker/K8S

Fess source

Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.

Apache-2.0Java/Docker

Hister source

Personal web search engine with automatic indexing of visited websites. Supports offline local result previews, local files, multi-user handling and optional semantic search.

AGPL-3.0Go/Docker

MeiliSearch source

Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.

MITRust/Docker/deb

Meme Search

AI-powered meme search engine. Automatically extracts descriptions from images using vision-language models, then indexes with vector embeddings for semantic and keyword search.

Apache-2.0Docker

OpenSearch source

Distributed and RESTful search engine.

Apache-2.0Java/Docker/K8S/deb

SearXNG source

Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx).

AGPL-3.0Python/Docker

Sosse source

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

AGPL-3.0Python/Docker

Typesense source

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

GPL-3.0C++/Docker/K8S/deb

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