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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43.7/100 developing ▼ -5.1 Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

3 APIs

SearchFull-Text SearchVector SearchElasticsearch CompatibleOpen SourceDatabase

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Composite quality — 43.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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APIs 3

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

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.

JSON Schema 45

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

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Examples 10

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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.
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: '0.19'
tags:
- 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
  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