Ecommerce search and merchandising · Named, not rankedTypesense
Typesense is an open-source search engine used for ecommerce search and merchandising · typesense.org ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Typesense has 7.
Why models recommend it
“If you have technical resources: Consider Typesense (self-hosted) for $0 software cost”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Typesense or Meilisearch if: You want open-source options”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Typesense or Meilisearch — *Best Open-Source Alternatives*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Open-source alternative to Algolia and ElasticSearch.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Raw Algolia, Meilisearch, Typesense | Non-Technical Merchandising Teams: ... you will end up having to build internal tools custom-coded by developers”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Typesense, over the 17 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 13 | 7 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 5 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 13 of the 17 answers that named Typesense and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-eight of the forty-eight domain citations in answers naming Typesense came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |