# Solr: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/solr

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Ecommerce search and merchandising](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/ecommerce-search-and-merchandising/index.md) | 0% | 64 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "you don't want your engineering team spent building and maintaining a custom Solr or Elasticsearch infrastructure from scratch" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Ecommerce search)
- "building your own on top of them is a major decision... maintaining a search cluster is a massive distraction" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Ecommerce search)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Solr, from 4 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- g2.com: 3
- constructor.com: 2
- coveo.com: 2
- ecommercegermany.com: 2
- nosto.com: 2
- accenture.com: 1
- aiproductivity.ai: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- clerk.io: 1
- commandc.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://g2.com/categories/e-commerce-search: 3
- https://ecommercegermany.com/blog/product-discovery-software: 2
- https://accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/a-com-migration/manual/r3/pdf/pdf-141/Accenture-Cloud-Search-Platforms.pdf: 1
- https://aiproductivity.ai/blog/best-ecommerce-search-tools: 1
- https://capterra.com/p/173203/Bloomreach/reviews: 1
- https://clerk.io/blog/best-product-discovery-tools-ecommerce-2026: 1
- https://clerk.io/blog/choosing-search-engine-in-2026: 1
- https://commandc.com/enterprise-ecommerce-site-search: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.