Search · an alternative to Algolia, Meilisearch and Typesense

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SiteOS Search helps visitors find the right page in your website, documentation and resources, in search that fits your design, and shows what people need from their queries. This page compares SiteOS Search with Algolia, Meilisearch and Typesense on crawling, indices, relevance, semantic search, analytics, the search interface, hosting and price.

Content & crawlers
Relevance & suggestions
Queries & result clicks

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Free, with monthly credits. Content, relevance and visitor reports included.

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SiteOS vs Algolia, Meilisearch & Typesense

Compare the work around search: keeping content fresh, making results useful and understanding what visitors cannot find.

SiteOS, Algolia, Meilisearch and Typesense: website search, content management, analytics and selected hosted plans. Reviewed September 30, 2026.
Capability	SiteOS	Algolia	Meilisearch	Typesense
Free plan	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly
Price of the compared plan	Free	Usage-based	$30 / mo	$0.03 / hr
Website crawler	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Several search indexes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom synonyms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Search analytics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Ready-made search UI	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Semantic or hybrid search	No	Partly	Yes	Yes
AI answers from your content	No	Partly	Partly	Partly
Open source and self-hosting	No	No	Yes	Yes
MCP for AI agents	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data export	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
One workspace with other website tools	Yes	No	No	No

YesPartly, with the condition in the notesNot offered or not documented

SiteOS Search is free, with monthly credits; operational limits apply, including up to 200 pages per crawl. Algolia Grow includes 10,000 search requests and 100,000 records a month; usage above that is billed.

Meilisearch offers a 14-day Cloud trial. Typesense’s quoted single-node configuration includes its first 720 hours and 10 GB free. Both open-source engines are free to self-host and operate yourself.

Typesense’s documentation scraper runs on your own infrastructure, and its analytics aggregate queries and events for reporting you build.

The semantic search, AI answer and self-hosting rows were checked against each vendor’s official pages on 13 Oct 2026. Algolia NeuralSearch needs the Elevate plan; AI answers need your own LLM provider in Algolia Agent Studio, Meilisearch, where the chat API is experimental, and Typesense. Meilisearch Enterprise features use BUSL 1.1 or a commercial license.

Sources · reviewed 30 Sep 2026

AlgoliaPlans Crawler CLI & export MCP NeuralSearch Elevate plan Agent Studio Hosted infrastructure
MeilisearchPlans Crawler Analytics Documents MCP Hybrid search Chat answers License
TypesensePlans DocSearch Features Analytics Export MCP Vector search Conversational search License

How it works

From your content
to the right page.

Start with the pages you want people to find. Review the results, connect your website and improve from real searches.

01
Choose what’s searchable.
Create an index for your docs, blog or resources. Crawl public pages, import JSON or migrate from Algolia. Review changes before publication.
Bring your content
02
Make search feel at home.
Use Search skills to adapt the interface to your website. Tune synonyms and field priority, compare results and publish your chosen settings.
Connect your website
03
Find what’s missing.
See popular queries, searches with no results and the articles people open. Improve the content and relevance that matter to your visitors.
Understand your searches

FAQ

Questions
about Search.

Search is free, including named indices, crawling, relevance settings, suggestions and visitor reports. Operational limits still apply: a crawler currently supports up to 200 pages per run. Larger prepared sources can use the import workflow.

Yes. Your agent can use Search skills to adapt the search bar and dialog to your framework, components and design tokens. The resulting interface lives in your repository and remains editable. It supports keyboard navigation, result snippets and highlighted matches; you can also build your own interface around the query API.

Yes. One Project environment can have several named indices. Each has its own documents, crawlers, connection keys, relevance, suggestions and analytics. Connect each search interface to its intended index; Production and preview environments remain separate.

Schedule public HTML crawls or import a fresh snapshot from your content source. Review additions, changes and removals before publishing. A crawler can publish later complete updates automatically after its first reviewed baseline, subject to removal safeguards. Pages rendered only with JavaScript need a prepared content import.

Yes. Connect an authorized Algolia index or upload a records export, map its fields and review the import. The agent workflow can also inspect exported settings and synonyms. Algolia-specific ranking rules, personalization and historical analytics do not transfer automatically. Your existing search stays in place until you change the website integration.

Search reports use no cookies or persistent visitor identifiers. New indices use independent collection; you can instead require the visitor’s analytics consent. Both modes respect opt-out, GPC and DNT. Reports describe searches and clicks, not unique people. Event recording must be installed in your website, and query text still needs care because people can type personal information.

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SiteOS vs Algolia, Meilisearch & Typesense

From your contentto the right page.

Choose what’s searchable.

Make search feel at home.

Find what’s missing.

Questionsabout Search.

Is Search free?

Can it match our existing website?

Can documentation and blog search stay separate?

How does the content stay up to date?

Can we migrate from Algolia?

Does Search track individual visitors?

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Your content.
Within reach.

From your content
to the right page.

Questions
about Search.

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Worth finding.