Manticore Search
Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).
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12 self-hosted alternatives to OpenSearch (2026)
Distributed and RESTful search engine.
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).
ZincSearch source
Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch).
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.
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.
Fess source
Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.
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.
MeiliSearch source
Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.
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.
SearXNG source
Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx).
Sosse source
Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.
Typesense source
Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.