Datafari vs Typesense
Datafari
datafari.com
Typesense
typesense.orgSide by side
| Figure | Datafari | Typesense |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $825/mo | $22/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 8 |
| Spec score · Search Databases | 8.5 (#7) | 8.0 (#14) |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Cagnes-sur-Mer, France | Houston, TX |
| Integrations | Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks and email. | Listed integrations include Firebase, AWS Amplify, Laravel Scout, LangChain, LlamaIndex, InstantSearch, OpenAI, and Google ML platforms. |
| Maker | The maker identifies France Labs as the software maker of Datafari. | Typesense, Inc. describes itself as a lean, customer-funded team of engineers focused on making search technology accessible. |
| Product | Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution that finds company data across sources and formats. | Typesense is an open-source, typo-tolerant search engine for instant, typically sub-50ms, search-as-you-type experiences. |
| Search features | Search includes multilingual support, spellchecking, content suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and smart autocomplete. | It supports typo tolerance, tunable ranking, sorting, faceting, filtering, grouping, federated search, and geo search. |
| Security | Datafari supports AD or LDAP authentication, authorization through source-system ACLs, and HTTPS encryption for exchanges between components and users. | Typesense Cloud says clusters are isolated and dedicated, API traffic is encrypted over HTTPS, and data is protected with full-disk encryption at rest. |
| Support | The Community plan lists customer support as DIY, while the Initial plan lists customer support as included. | Typesense offers community support through GitHub Issues and public Slack, plus paid prioritized support with SLAs, consulting, and training for Cloud. |
Plans
Typesense
- Self-hostedFree
- Typesense Cloud$22 a month
- Free supportFree
- Typesense Cloud cluster$22 a month
- Developer support$160 a month
- Business support$400 a month
- Enterprise support$700 a month
- Enterprise Signature support$1,900 a month
In their own words
Datafari
Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution made by France Labs for finding company data across sources and formats. Its crawlers collect content and metadata, with configurable processing filters and crawl-load management. Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks, and email. A plugin mechanism allows connectors for additional sources.
Search features include multilingual support, spellchecking, suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and autocomplete. Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department. Datafari supports hybrid and vector search, faceted search, and a REST query interface. Neural Datafari adds vector search and retrieval-augmented answers grounded in documents the user is authorized to access. The free Community plan is aimed at developers and DIY users; its support is DIY. The Initial plan costs $9,900 a year and includes customer support.
Typesense
Typesense is an open-source search engine for adding search to a website or app using data you supply; it does not crawl the web. It is designed for typo-tolerant, search-as-you-type results, typically in under 50 milliseconds. Search tools include tunable ranking, sorting, faceting, filtering, grouping, federated search and geo search. Listed AI capabilities include vector and hybrid search, built-in RAG, natural-language, image and voice search.
You can run it locally or on a server, or use hosted Typesense Cloud. Its REST API has listed integrations including Firebase, AWS Amplify, Laravel Scout, LangChain, LlamaIndex, InstantSearch, OpenAI and Google ML platforms. Typesense offers a free plan; Cloud clusters start at $22 a month. Cloud billing includes cluster runtime and bandwidth, and the hourly cluster fee continues while a cluster runs without traffic. The one-time free Cloud tier applies to select configurations and does not renew monthly.