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The best Search Server alternative to OpenSearch is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to OpenSearch and 11 are Search Servers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Search Server alternatives to OpenSearch are Sphinx (search engine), Searchcraft, Apache Lucene and RediSearch.

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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.

    70 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Node.JS
    • Objective-C
     
  2. Elasticsearch icon
     53 likes

    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    68 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Apache Solr icon
     26 likes

    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.

    49 Apache Solr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  4. 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.

    46 Sphinx (search engine) alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Searchcraft icon
     4 likes

    Searchcraft is a highly performant, content-optimized search engine written in Rust. It has lower resource footprint than Elasticsearch with faster response times. It aims to be faster, easier to implement, and easier to manage than Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Agolia and Solr...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  6. Apache Lucene icon
     4 likes

    High-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. Apache Lucene is a open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. RediSearch icon
     3 likes

    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
     
  8. OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Main features of OpenSearchServer are : An integrated crawler for databases, web pages and rich documents; a user friendly GUI allowing development of most...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. SearchBlox icon
     1 like

    SearchBlox is an out-of-the-box Enterprise Search Solution built on top of Apache Lucene/Solr. It is fast to deploy, easy to manage and available for both on-premise and cloud deployment.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Simplify how agents connect to enterprise data. Build high-impact AI apps with one centralized solution for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  11. ParadeDB icon
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    ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

    52 ParadeDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
     
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