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Sonic vs Manticore Search: catalog facts
Sonic	Manticore Search
Free Free and open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Linux, Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Very low memory use compared with Elasticsearch Schema-less, with no index mapping to define	Full-text, vector and hybrid search in one engine SQL query interface
Returns identifiers, not stored documents, so a separate database is needed Uses its own protocol rather than a familiar HTTP API	A server component for developers, not an end-user search app Benchmark results depend on the workload
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MPL-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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