The Best 21 Sphinx (search engine) Alternatives

  • Google Search icon

    Google Search

    Google Search is the most popular search engine on the Internet. Google can search for webpages, images, videos, news, and various other forms of media.

    Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Chrome OS Web Windows Phone

  • Algolia icon

    Algolia

    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    Commercial Web Ruby Ruby on Rails AngularJS Python JavaScript Android SDK cURL

    Full text search REST API Indexed search
  • elasticsearch icon

    elasticsearch

    ElasticSearch is a distributed, RESTful, free/open source search server based on Java under the Apache License ( Lucene ).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Java

  • Apache Solr icon

    Apache Solr

    Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Microsoft Azure

  • Xapian icon

    Xapian

    Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a full text search engine library for...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • OpenSearchServer icon

    OpenSearchServer

    OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Main features of OpenSearchServer are : An...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac

  • findx icon

    findx

    Your new search engine. No logging. No tracking. Transparent algorithms. Hosted in Europe. Users like you help shape the results.

    Free Open Source Web Chrome Firefox

  • Expertrec Search Engine icon

    Expertrec Search Engine

    Adds super fast search autocomplete, spell correct and search listing pages to your site search. Expertrec's search results are delivered in less than a millisecond helping you deliver a premium search experience to your customers.

    Commercial Web Magento Community Edition

  • Whoosh icon

    Whoosh

    Whoosh is a library of classes and functions for indexing text and then searching the index. It allows you to develop custom search engines for your content.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

    Full text search Indexed search
  • Measured Search icon

    Measured Search

    Measured Search provides a fully-managed personalized search & discovery service offering feature packed textual & relevance based search, contextualized...

    Commercial Linux

  • ItemsAPI icon

    ItemsAPI

    The goal of ItemsAPI is creating search application without spending time for backend. You just provide json data and your backend is ready to go. With ItemsAPI you...

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted Heroku elasticsearch

  • SearchBlox icon

    SearchBlox

    SearchBlox is an out-of-the-box Enterprise Search Solution built on top of Apache Lucene/Solr. It is fast to deploy, easy to manage and available for both on-premise and...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Manticore search icon

    Manticore search

    Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • SearchUnit icon

    SearchUnit

    SearchUnit is the modern, flexible, fully featured ASP.NET search engine component for your web applications. Free Community edition available. .

    Freemium Self-Hosted ASP.NET MVC

  • Azure Search icon

    Azure Search

    Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to your website or application. Quickly and easily tune search results and construct...

    Freemium Web Microsoft Azure

  • Elasticlunr icon

    Elasticlunr

    Lightweight full-text search engine in Javascript for browser search and offline search.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux