Typesense

name: Typesense
description: Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant, open-source search engine designed
  for developer productivity. It provides instant search experiences with support
  for full-text search, faceting, filtering, sorting, geo-based search, vector search,
  and conversational AI search. Typesense is available as an open-source self-hosted
  solution or as a managed cloud service via Typesense Cloud.
image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
url: https://typesense.org
created: '2026-05-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Full-Text Search
- Open Source
- Search Engine
- Typo Tolerance
- Vector Search
apis:
- name: Typesense Search API
  description: The core Typesense REST API for managing collections, indexing documents,
    and performing full-text, faceted, filtered, sorted, geo-based, and multi-search
    queries. Supports synonym sets, curation sets, collection aliases, stopwords,
    presets, stemming dictionaries, API keys, and cluster operations.
  image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Collections
  - Documents
  - Full-Text Search
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/latest/api/
  - url: graphql/typesense-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- name: Typesense Vector Search API
  description: The Typesense Vector Search API extends the core search capabilities
    with vector and hybrid search. It supports indexing embedding fields, querying
    by vector proximity, and combining semantic vector search with keyword search
    for superior relevance.
  image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/vector-search.html
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  - Hybrid Search
  - Semantic Search
  - Vector Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/vector-search.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-vector-search-api-openapi.yml
- name: Typesense Conversational Search API
  description: The Typesense Conversational Search API enables AI-powered question
    answering over your search index. It supports conversation models (OpenAI, Cloudflare
    Workers AI), NL search models, and stateful multi-turn conversations over indexed
    data.
  image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/conversational-search-rag.html
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - AI
  - Conversational Search
  - LLM
  - RAG
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/conversational-search-rag.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-conversational-search-api-openapi.yml
- name: Typesense Analytics API
  description: The Typesense Analytics API tracks search events and provides insights
    into search behavior, popular queries, no-result queries, and click analytics.
    Supports rule-based aggregation and analytics data exports.
  image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Events
  - Query Insights
  - Search Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-analytics-api-openapi.yml
- name: Typesense Cloud Management API
  description: The Typesense Cloud Management API enables provisioning and managing
    Typesense Cloud clusters programmatically. Supports creating, updating, terminating
    clusters, scheduling configuration changes, managing server configuration parameters,
    and generating API keys.
  image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
  baseURL: https://cloud.typesense.org/api/v1
  tags:
  - Cluster Management
  - Cloud
  - Infrastructure
  - Provisioning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-cloud-management-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/typesense
- type: Website
  url: https://typesense.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://typesense.org/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/typesense
- type: Blog
  url: https://typesense.org/blog/
- type: Slack Community
  url: https://join.slack.com/t/typesense-community/shared_invite/zt-2fetvh0pw-ft5y2YQlq4FS3fVDFTfWJA
- type: Docker Hub
  url: https://hub.docker.com/r/typesense/typesense
- type: npm
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typesense
- type: Pricing
  url: https://typesense.org/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://typesense.org/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://typesense.org/privacy/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/typesense-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/typesense-collection-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/typesense-search-result-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/typesense-analytics-event-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/typesense-collection-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/typesense-search-result-structure.json
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/typesense-vocabulary.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/typesense-rules.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - 'Open Source: GPL v3 self-hosted, free at any scale'
  - Cloud Small from ~$0.045/hr (0.5 GB RAM, single node)
  - Cloud Medium from ~$0.18/hr (2 GB RAM, single node)
  - 'Cloud HA Multi-node: ~3x base for 3-node cluster'
  - 'Enterprise custom: dedicated support, self-hosted Enterprise license'
  - Typo-tolerant full-text search
  - Geosearch and faceted search
  - Vector search and hybrid search
  - Federated multi-collection search
  - REST API with scoped API keys
  - Configurable per-key rate limits
  - InstantSearch.js compatibility
  - Auto-suggestions and autocomplete
  - Synonyms, stop words, stemming
  - Curation rules for promoted results
  - Open-source SDKs for many languages
  sources:
  - https://typesense.org/cloud/
  - https://cloud.typesense.org/pricing
  updated: '2026-05-04'