Elasticsearch Alternatives
Distributed full-text search and analytics engine with built-in vector and hybrid search
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene.
Explore 25 alternatives to Elasticsearch across 1 category. Updated October 2026.
Top Elasticsearch alternatives at a glance
- Meilisearch. Open-source search engine in Rust with full-text, semantic, and hybrid search
- OpenSearch. Open-source search and analytics suite with full-text, vector, and hybrid search
- Azure AI Search. Microsoft managed search service with vector, hybrid, and agentic retrieval for RAG
- Typesense. Open-source typo-tolerant search engine with built-in vector and hybrid search
- Supabase Vector. Open-source Postgres vector database and AI toolkit built on pgvector
Compare Elasticsearch with its alternatives
| Product | Pricing Model | Free Tier | Open Source | Hosting | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Meilisearch | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | π«π· France |
| OpenSearch | Free | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Azure AI Search | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | πΊπΈ United States |
| Typesense | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Supabase Vector | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΈπ¬ Singapore |
| Redis | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ AGPL-3.0 | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Milvus | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE2 | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| FAISS | Free | ✓ | ✓ | Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Qdrant | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE2 | Cloud + Self-hosted | π©πͺ Germany |
| Chroma | Pay-per-use | — | ✓ APACHE2 | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| pgvector | Free | ✓ | ✓ | Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Weaviate | Pay-per-use | ✓ | ✓ BSD3 | Cloud + Self-hosted | π³π± Netherlands |
| LanceDB | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE2 | Cloud + Self-hosted | πΊπΈ United States |
| Vespa | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Cloud + Self-hosted | π³π΄ Norway |
| TopK | Pay-per-use | — | ✓ MIT | Cloud | πΊπΈ United States |
ποΈ Vector databases
Meilisearch
Open-source search engine in Rust with full-text, semantic, and hybrid search
OpenSearch
Open-source search and analytics suite with full-text, vector, and hybrid search
Typesense
Open-source typo-tolerant search engine with built-in vector and hybrid search
Supabase Vector
Open-source Postgres vector database and AI toolkit built on pgvector
Redis
In-memory vector database for low-latency similarity search across AI applications
Milvus
Vector database built for scalable similarity search.
FAISS
Meta's open-source library for efficient similarity search and dense vector clustering
LanceDB
The hyper scalable, easy to use, embedded vector database.
Zilliz
A Widely-Adopted Vector Database.
Marqo
Use your data to increase relevance with vector search.
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