Backend developers building fast, typo tolerant search and RAG retrieval into applications.

Typesense is an open source search engine server providing typo tolerant full text, vector, and hybrid search with sub 50ms latency.

Self hosted as a single binary or Docker container, or used via the managed Typesense Cloud service.

First released around 2017 and actively maintained with regular releases as of 2026.

Offers an Algolia or Elasticsearch alternative that is simple to operate and combines keyword, semantic, and vector search in one engine.

Requires the Typesense server process and client libraries, and vector search can integrate with embeddings from any model.

Open source server under GPL-3.0 with Apache licensed clients; can be fully self hosted, or used via the paid Typesense Cloud where data is hosted by Typesense.