Typesense

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.

Typesense publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Analytics Events API, Analytics Operations API, Analytics Rules API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Full-Text Search, Open-Source, Search Engines, Typo Tolerance, and Vector Search.

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

Typesense’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 18 more developer resources.

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42.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve

2 APIs 16 Features

Full-Text Search Open-Source Search EnginesTypo ToleranceVector Search

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 42.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.7 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 18

Access Clarity 6.6 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 2.7 / 11

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

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APIs 6

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

Typesense Analytics Events API

Log and retrieve user interaction events such as clicks, conversions, and visits for tracking search behavior and personalization.

Typesense Analytics Operations API

Operational endpoints for managing the analytics subsystem.

Typesense Analytics Rules API

Create and manage analytics rules that control how search queries and user events are aggregated for query suggestions and relevance tuning.

Typesense Cluster Management API

Create, retrieve, update, and terminate Typesense Cloud clusters. Manage cluster lifecycle and generate Typesense Server API keys.

Typesense Configuration Changes API

Schedule, retrieve, list, and cancel configuration changes to running clusters such as memory upgrades, version changes, and HA toggles.

Typesense Server Configuration Parameters API

Manage Typesense Server configuration parameters for cloud clusters.

Open Collections 28

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Analytics Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Analytics Rules API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events API Keys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Cloud Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Cluster Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Collection Aliases API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Configuration Changes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Conversation Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Conversational Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Curation Sets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Monitoring API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Multi-Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events NL Search Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Presets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Server Configuration Parameters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Stemming API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Stopwords API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Synonym Sets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Vector Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics Analytics Events Vector Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

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GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Typesense GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema provides a conceptual type system for the [Typesense](https://typesense.org) open-source search engine REST API. Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search en...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Typesense Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Typesense Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Typesense Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

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

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Typesense Context

0 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Typesense API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 66

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

Typesense Analytics Event

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEventCreateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEventCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsRule

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsRuleCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKey

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeySchema

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeysResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cluster

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterApiKeys

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterCreateSchema

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterUpdateSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Typesense Collection

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAlias

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAliasesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAliasSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionSchema

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionUpdateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurationChange

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurationChangeCreateSchema

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationalSearchResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModelCreateSchema

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModelUpdateSchema

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationItem

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationItemSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationSet

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationSetSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DirtyValues

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmbedConfig

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FacetCounts

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Field

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HealthStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexAction

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiSearchParameters

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiSearchResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModelCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModelUpdateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Preset

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetUpsertSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaChangeStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Typesense Search Result

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchGroupedHit

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchHighlight

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResult

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResultHit

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServerConfigurationParameters

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StemmingDictionary

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopwordsSet

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopwordsSetUpsertSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SuccessStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymItemSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymSet

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymSetSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorCollectionResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorCollectionSchema

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorField

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorMultiSearchParameters

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorSearchHit

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorSearchResult

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceQueryModelConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Typesense Collection Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Typesense Search Result Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Typesense Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Typesense Create Collection Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Typesense Index Document Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Typesense Multi Search Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Typesense Search Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Typesense Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Typesense Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Typesense Agentic Access

95 operations · 52 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

95 operations · 52 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

Vocabulary

SpectralRules

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

npm

npm

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Slack Community

Slack Community

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Docker Hub

Docker Hub

Source (apis.yml)

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.
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://typesense.org/favicon-32x32.png
url: https://typesense.org
created: '2026-05-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Full-Text Search
- Open-Source
- Search Engines
- Typo Tolerance
- Vector Search
tags_raw:
- Full-Text Search
- Open Source
- Search Engine
- Typo Tolerance
- Vector Search
apis:
- aid: typesense:typesense-analytics-events-api
  name: Typesense Analytics Events API
  description: Log and retrieve user interaction events such as clicks, conversions, and visits for tracking search behavior
    and personalization.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Analytics Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-analytics-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
- aid: typesense:typesense-analytics-operations-api
  name: Typesense Analytics Operations API
  description: Operational endpoints for managing the analytics subsystem.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Analytics Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-analytics-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
- aid: typesense:typesense-analytics-rules-api
  name: Typesense Analytics Rules API
  description: Create and manage analytics rules that control how search queries and user events are aggregated for query
    suggestions and relevance tuning.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Analytics Rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-analytics-rules-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
- aid: typesense:typesense-cluster-management-api
  name: Typesense Cluster Management API
  description: Create, retrieve, update, and terminate Typesense Cloud clusters. Manage cluster lifecycle and generate Typesense
    Server API keys.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Cluster Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-cluster-management-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
- aid: typesense:typesense-configuration-changes-api
  name: Typesense Configuration Changes API
  description: Schedule, retrieve, list, and cancel configuration changes to running clusters such as memory upgrades, version
    changes, and HA toggles.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Configuration Changes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-configuration-changes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
- aid: typesense:typesense-server-configuration-parameters-api
  name: Typesense Server Configuration Parameters API
  description: Manage Typesense Server configuration parameters for cloud clusters.
  humanURL: https://typesense.org/docs/
  baseURL: http://localhost:8108
  tags:
  - Server Configuration Parameters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/typesense-server-configuration-parameters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/analytics-query-suggestions.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://typesense.org/docs/cloud-management-api/v1/cluster-management.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/typesense-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/typesense-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/typesense-authentication.yml
- 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'

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