Open-source alternatives to Algolia
Algolia is a hosted search API for site and product search. The list below is every catalog tool tagged Search Engines, which is the closest the catalog gets to the same job; none of them has been checked feature by feature against Algolia.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine. SSPL-1.0 · released 2026-09-03 | 77,903 |
Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx). AGPL-3.0 · released unknown | 36,642 |
Distributed and RESTful search engine. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-08-05 | 13,676 |
Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch). GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-14 | 11,993 |
BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration. MIT · released 2026-05-21 | 4,337 |
Peer based, decentralized search engine server. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | 4,029 |
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-3.0 · released 2026-02-23 | 3,624 |
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. MIT · released 2025-10-27 | 2,425 |
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-2.0 · released unknown | 1,673 |
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-3.0 · released 2026-05-13 | 1,193 |
Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-08-20 | 1,129 |
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-2.0 · released 2026-08-05 | 734 |
Hybrid search engine built for flexible deployment and real-world messy data. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-15 | 7 |
Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving. AGPL-3.0 · released unknown | 2 |
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