Manticore Search

Open-source search engine with a REST API compatible with Elasticsearch and MySQL protocols for full-text search, filtering, aggregations, and AI vector search. Manticore Search is a high-performance alternative to Elasticsearch, offering up to 2.83x faster big data search and 10.09x faster log analytics, running efficiently on minimal resources.

Manticore Search publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Index API, Search API, and utils API. Tagged areas include Search, Full-Text Search, Vector Search, Elasticsearch Compatible, and Open-Source.

The Manticore Search catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Manticore Search’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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38.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

Search Full-Text Search Vector SearchElasticsearch CompatibleOpen-Source Database

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 38.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.1 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 18

Access Clarity 9.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 3.1 / 12

Contract Governance 1.1 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 3.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Manticore Search Index API

Operations regarding adding, updating or deleting documents

Manticore Search Search API

Operations about performing searches over tables

Manticore Search utils API

The utils API from Manticore Search — 1 operation(s) for utils.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Manticore Search Client Index API

OPEN COLLECTION

Manticore Client Index Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Manticore Search Client Index utils API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Manticore Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Manticore Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Manticore Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Manticore Context

5 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Manticore Search API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 45

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

_match

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggComposite

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggCompositeSource

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggCompositeTerm

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggDateHistogram

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggHistogram

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggTerms

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

aggregation

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

autocompleteRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

boolFilter

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

bulkResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

deleteDocumentRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

deleteResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

errorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

fulltextFilter

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

geoDistance

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

highlight

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

highlightFieldOption

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

highlightFields

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

hitsHits

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

insertDocumentRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

join

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

joinCond

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

joinOn

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

knn

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

match_all

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

percolateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

queryFilter

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

queryFilterAlias1

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

queryFilterAlias2

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

range

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

replaceDocumentRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

responseError

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

responseErrorDetails

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

responseErrorText

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

searchQuery

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

searchRequest

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

searchResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

sourceRules

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

sqlObjResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

sqlRawResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

sqlResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

successResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

updateDocumentRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

updateResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 10

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Autocomplete

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Bulk

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Delete

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Insert

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Partial_Replace

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Percolate

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Replace

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Search

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Sql

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Update

6 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Manticore Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Manticore Agentic Access

20 operations · 20 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: manticore
name: Manticore Search
description: Open-source search engine with a REST API compatible with Elasticsearch and MySQL protocols for full-text search,
  filtering, aggregations, and AI vector search. Manticore Search is a high-performance alternative to Elasticsearch, offering
  up to 2.83x faster big data search and 10.09x faster log analytics, running efficiently on minimal resources.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/manticore.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/manticore/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Search
- Full-Text Search
- Vector Search
- Elasticsearch Compatible
- Open-Source
- Database
tags_raw:
- Search
- Full-Text Search
- Vector Search
- Elasticsearch Compatible
- Open Source
- Database
apis:
- aid: manticore:manticore-index-api
  name: Manticore Search Index API
  description: Operations regarding adding, updating or deleting documents
  humanURL: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Openapi
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:9308/
  tags:
  - Index
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/manticore-index-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/
- aid: manticore:manticore-search-api
  name: Manticore Search Search API
  description: Operations about performing searches over tables
  humanURL: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Openapi
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:9308/
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/manticore-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/
- aid: manticore:manticore-utils-api
  name: Manticore Search utils API
  description: The utils API from Manticore Search — 1 operation(s) for utils.
  humanURL: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Openapi
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:9308/
  tags:
  - Utils
  tags_raw:
  - utils
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/manticore-utils-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/manticore-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/manticore-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://manticoresearch.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://manual.manticoresearch.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/manticoresoftware
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manticore-software
- type: Blog
  url: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://manticoresearch.com/services/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/manticoresearch
- type: Plans
  url: plans/manticore-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/manticore-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/manticore-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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