Discover the best indie search engine tools built by independent developers. Focused functionality, fair pricing, and real human support.
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Open-source vector database built for AI applications.
Open-source vector search engine with built-in ML modules.
AI-native semantic web search and research
Real-time AI-powered research via Perplexity Sonar
Real-time search and extraction optimized for AI agents
Privacy-first web search for AI assistants
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Self-hosted.
Lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search engine that feels like magic
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
🌌 A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support fo
Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
Ecommerce Search and Discovery - marqo.ai
Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
Search engine that requires minimal resources (alternative to Elasticsearch)
ruoyi-vue-pro 全新 Cloud 版本，优化重构所有功能。基于 Spring Cloud Alibaba + MyBatis Plus + Vue & Element 实现的后台管理系统
🏆 Real-Time no-code, powerful and secure ORM 🚀 providing APIs and Docs without coding by Backend, a
OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitor
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in r
Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find informati
Main Sigma Rule Repository
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch
Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres
Import and export tools for elasticsearch & opensearch
Search plugins for qBittorrent search feature
LLocalSearch is a completely locally running search aggregator using LLM Agents. The user can ask a
Modular e-commerce backend with a GraphQL gateway and gRPC microservices for accounts, products, ord
Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clu
Open-source and hosted search as a Service. [](https://github.com/typesense/typesense)
Search as a service and full suite of search APIs