Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted


Metasearch is described as 'Search aggregator for Slack, Google Docs, GitHub, and more' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Metasearch for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Mac, Windows and SaaS apps. The best Metasearch 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 Metasearch are Manticore search, Searchspring, Chroma DB and Qdrant.


ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.
