Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search engine built from the ground up in C++ for performance. It combines traditional keyword search with vector search capabilities, enabling hybrid search that balances relevance and semantic understanding.
The engine is designed to be easy to set up and operate compared to Elasticsearch. Features include automatic typo correction, faceted navigation, result pinning/curation, synonyms, geo-search, and built-in analytics. Its vector search capability supports embedding-based semantic search and RAG applications.
Typesense is open source under the GPL v3 license. Self-hosted deployment is free. Typesense Cloud offers managed hosting starting from $0.03/hour per node.