Typesense is an open source, typo-tolerant search engine optimized for instant sub-50ms search-as-you-type experiences. Built in C++ and architected for low-latency performance, it serves as an open source alternative to Algolia and an easier-to-use alternative to Elasticsearch, powering billions of searches monthly across self-hosted and cloud deployments.
The company was founded in 2015 and bootstrapped by customer revenue, with Typesense Cloud launching in 2020 to offer fully managed search infrastructure. The platform features typo tolerance, tunable ranking, faceting, geo search, vector search, semantic search, and conversational RAG capabilities, serving thousands of companies with clusters starting at $22 per month.
Hosted SaaS version of the open-source Typesense search engine, offering globally distributed search-as-a-service with infrastructure management included.
