# Manticore Search

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/manticore/  
**Website:** https://manticoresearch.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 36.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 26.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Manticore Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 20 acting

## Security (1)

- **Manticore Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Manticore Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Full-Text Search, Vector Search, Elasticsearch Compatible, Open-Source, Database

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/manticore/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.