Carrot2 Alternatives

Carrot2 is described as 'Organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for' and is an app in the online services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Carrot2 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Carrot2 alternative is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. Other great apps like Carrot2 are OpenSearch, Apache Solr, Manticore search and Searchspring.

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  1. Algolia icon
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    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    67 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Node.JS
    • Objective-C
     
    • Algolia is the most popular Web-based alternative to Carrot2.

    • Algolia is the most popular free alternative to Carrot2.

    • Algolia is Free Personal and ProprietaryCarrot2 is Free and Open Source
  2. Meilisearch icon
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    Meilisearch helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out-of-the-box to speed up your workflow.

    28 Meilisearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Meilisearch is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Carrot2.

    • Meilisearch is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Carrot2.

    • Meilisearch is Paid and Open SourceCarrot2 is Free and Open Source
  3. Elasticsearch icon
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    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    65 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. OpenSearch icon
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    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. Apache Solr icon
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    Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling.

    48 Apache Solr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
     
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    Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Searchspring provides solutions for online retailers such as site search, personalization, merchandising, and insights. It's compatible with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Miva.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Pagefind icon
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    Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

    51 Pagefind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
     
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    Sphinx is a software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Toshi icon
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    Toshi is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. RediSearch icon
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    Redisearch implements a search engine on top of Redis, but unlike other Redis search libraries, it does not use internal data structures like sorted sets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Elasticlunr.js, lightweight full-text search engine in Javascript for browser search and offline search. Elasticlunr.js is developed based on Lunr.js, but more flexible than lunr.js. Elasticlunr.js provides Query-Time boosting and field search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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