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Typesense vs Sonic: catalog facts
Typesense	Sonic
Freemium Free to self-host under GPL-3.0; Typesense Cloud is a paid hosted option.	Free Free and open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Linux, Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Typo tolerance out of the box Vector, hybrid and geo search	Very low memory use compared with Elasticsearch Schema-less, with no index mapping to define
In-memory index means RAM must fit the dataset Aimed at developers building search, not end users	Returns identifiers, not stored documents, so a separate database is needed Uses its own protocol rather than a familiar HTTP API
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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