vioscaleAI
Comparison

Elasticsearch vs Typesense

On the evidence we track, Elasticsearch leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Elasticsearch full profile →Typesense full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
★Elasticsearch73
Typesense46
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elasticsearch73 / 100medium · 58%
Typesense46 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
Elasticsearch✗
Typesense✓
Model
Elasticsearchcommercial
Typesenseopen_source
Price level
Elasticsearchhigh
Typesensefree
Starting price
Elasticsearch$99
Typesense–
Transparent
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Integrations
Count
Elasticsearch350
Typesense10
Security
Gdpr
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense–
Scorecard
Elasticsearch6.4
Typesense7
Soc2
Elasticsearch–
Typesense✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Elasticsearch99.95
Typesense–
Status page
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elasticsearch18,551
Typesense0
Github stars
Elasticsearch78,195
Typesense26,872
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elasticsearch100
Typesense24
Release
Cadence days
Elasticsearch1
Typesense89
History
Elasticsearch20 items
Typesense20 items
License
Spdx
Elasticsearch–
TypesenseGPL-3.0
Language
Primary
ElasticsearchJava
TypesenseC++
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elasticsearch7 items
Typesense8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for search engines. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
ElasticsearchSelf-hosted
TypesenseSelf-hosted
Architecture
Index engine
ElasticsearchLucene
Typesense-
Query
Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)
ElasticsearchES|QL
TypesenseJSON
Faceting & filtering
ElasticsearchYes
TypesenseYes
Geo search
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Relevance
Typo tolerance / fuzzy
ElasticsearchBuilt-in
TypesenseBuilt-in
Relevance tuning
ElasticsearchLearning-to-rank
TypesenseRanking rules
Vector
Vector / hybrid search
ElasticsearchDense + lexical fusion
TypesenseDense + lexical fusion
Scale
Distributed / horizontal scale
ElasticsearchSharded
TypesenseClustered
Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Ingest
Real-time indexing
ElasticsearchNear-real-time
TypesenseNear-real-time
Workload
Log / analytics workload
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Licensing
Licence class
ElasticsearchSource-available (SSPL / Elastic)
TypesensePermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elasticsearch

Leader

A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs.

Independently observed

Typesense

An open-source search engine combining speed with ease of use, delivering instant relevant results with built-in fuzzy search, vector search, and geolocation. Available for self-hosting or via managed cloud service.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elasticsearch

Leader
from $99/moSubscription14-day trial

From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.

  • Standard$99/month
    • Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP
    • ES|QL query language and APIs
    • Default monitoring and AutoOps
    • Alerting with detection engine
    • Malware prevention
    • +6 more
  • Gold$114/month
    • All Standard features
    • Reporting
    • Third-party alerting actions
    • Watcher
    • Multi-stack monitoring
    • +3 more
  • Platinum$131/month with SLA
    • All Gold features
    • Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)
    • Vector search with ELSER and e5 models
    • Cross-cluster replication
    • Log categorization
    • +5 more
  • Enterprise$184/month
    • All Platinum features
    • Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
    • Elastic Maps Server
    • Cross-cluster search with ES|QL
    • ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)
    • +13 more
as of verify ↗

Typesense

from $22/moHybridFree tier

Free open-source self-hosted version. Cloud hosting from $22/month

  • Self-HostedFree
  • Typesense Cloud$22/mo
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
macOS
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✗
Windows
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✗
Linux
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✗
CLI
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓
Self-hosted
Elasticsearch✓
Typesense✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • Slack
  • OpenAI

Elasticsearch

Leader
43 total - 41 not shared
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • IBM Resilient
  • xMatters
  • GitHub
  • Jina AI
  • NVIDIA AI
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Sarvam AI
  • Google ADK
  • LlamaParse
  • Mistral
  • Elastic Agent
  • Beats
  • Logstash
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat
  • Heartbeat
  • Webhooks
  • S3
  • +17 more
Independently observed

Typesense

10 total - 8 not shared
  • Instantsearch.js
  • Laravel Scout
  • WordPress
  • Gatsby
  • Firebase
  • Docusaurus
  • Tooljet
  • Cloudflare Workers AI
Independently observed
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