Manticore Search
Manticore Search is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Search Engines category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C++. It is a self-hosted alternative to Algolia and ships a Docker image. It has 12,071 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Search Engines
- C++
- GPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 12,071
- Forks
- 651
- Open issues
- 607
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,285
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- release-29.9.0Sep 11, 2026
- Created
- Jun 28, 2017
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,285 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,285 |
| Latest release | release-29.9.0 (Sep 11, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 64 |
| Open issues | 607 |
| Open pull requests | 45 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jun 28, 2017 |
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About Manticore Search
Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch.
Topics
- search-engine
- search
- mysql
- sphinxsearch
- cpp
- stream-filtering
- full-text-search
- bm25
- search-server
- sql
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Is Manticore Search free and open source?
Yes. Manticore Search is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Manticore Search with Docker?
Yes. Manticore Search provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Manticore Search?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Manticore Search include ElasticSearch, MeiliSearch and SearXNG. Manticore Search itself is a self-hosted alternative to Algolia.
Is Manticore Search actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Manticore Search was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,285 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is release-29.9.0, published Sep 11, 2026. It had 607 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.