⚡ Site Search Software

Search software allows users to locate information across websites and internal company systems by indexing content and retrieving relevant results based on queries.

These systems typically support full-text indexing, autocomplete suggestions, faceted navigation, typo tolerance, configurable relevance ranking, and search analytics. Some of these solutions are specifically designed for e-commerce and support specialized features such as product filtering, dynamic recommendations, and personalized results based on user behavior.

According to our statistics, site search software is used on 1.9% of all websites.
97.6% of these sites use only one site search software solution, 2.4% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading site search software in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Programmable Search Engine with an impressive share of 35.5%, followed by Algolia with 15.7% and Solr with 8.1%.

Google Programmable Search Engine 35.5%
Algolia 15.7%
Solr 8.1%
Elasticsearch 7.7%
Doofinder 6.7%
Boost 3.4%
Searchanise 3.3%
Athos Commerce 2.6%
Lunr 2%
Yandex Site Search 1.9%
Yext 1.7%
Site Search 360 1.3%
Clerk.io 1.3%
Coveo 1.2%
Other 7.6%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of software that is especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Algolia is #1 in Australia ^(-1)
Solr is #1 in Germany ^(-2)
Doofinder is #1 in France ^(-4)
Yandex Site Search is #1 in Russia ^(-9)
Elasticsearch is #2 in Taiwan ^(-2)
Salesfire is #3 in the United Kingdom ^(-12)
Athos Commerce is #5 in the United States ^(-3)

✨ Best Site Search Software

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 34 site search software solutions we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google Programmable Search Engine Mountain View, California, United States A platform that lets users create a custom search engine for a website or a collection of websites. Free$$$	35.5%
2	Algolia Palo Alto, California, United States An AI-powered search and retrieval platform that provides full-text, numeric, and faceted search with real-time results and relevance ranking for websites and applications. Free$$$	15.7%
3	Solr Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source enterprise search server built on the Apache Lucene information retrieval library that provides full-text, faceted, and geospatial search over HTTP APIs. FreeOpen source	8.1%
4	Elasticsearch Amsterdam, Netherlands An open-source, distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built on Apache Lucene. FreeOpen source$99+/month	7.7%
5	Doofinder Madrid, Spain An e-commerce search and discovery solution that helps connect customers with relevant products on online stores. $39+/month	6.7%
6	Boost Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam An AI-powered search and discovery solution for Shopify stores that improves product findability and browsing by enhancing site search, filters, recommendations, and merchandising. $29+/month	3.4%
7	Searchanise San Francisco, California, United States A sophisticated website search engine for e-commerce stores. Free$19+/month	3.3%
8	Athos Commerce San Antonio, Texas, United States An e-commerce search, product discovery, and AI-powered personalization platform formed through the merger of Searchspring, Klevu, and Intelligent Reach under one brand. $699+/month	2.6%
9	Lunr A small full-text search JavaScript library for use in the browser. FreeOpen source	2%
10	Yandex Site Search Moscow, Russia A customizable solution from the Russian search engine Yandex for adding search functionality to websites. Free	1.9%
11	Yext New York, United States A cloud-based digital experience platform that includes listings management, generative AI and SEO tools, a natural language search engine and analytics. $499+/year	1.7%
12	Site Search 360 Dresden, Germany A cloud-based site search platform with e-commerce support, JavaScript crawling, and YouTube video indexing. Free$9+/month	1.3%
13	Clerk.io Copenhagen, Denmark An AI-powered e-commerce personalization platform that helps web stores sell more through intelligent search and targeted product recommendations. $119+/month	1.3%
14	Coveo Quebec City, Canada An extensible cloud-based search, recommendation, and personalization platform that uses AI and machine learning. $600+/month	1.2%
15	Salesfire Middlesbrough, United Kingdom A UK-based conversion rate optimization platform providing AI-powered personalization, on-site search, and behavioral messaging campaigns. £150+/month	1.1%
16	Jetboost Honolulu, Hawaii, United States A Webflow add-on for real-time search, dynamic filtering, sorting and pagination. Free$24+/month	1%
17	DataparkSearch An open-source, web-based search engine designed to index and search content across websites, intranets, and local systems. FreeOpen source	1%
18	Cludo Copenhagen, Denmark A cloud-based, AI-powered site search and content enablement solution that also analyzes how your visitors interact with content. $399+/month	0.9%
19	Fuse.js San Francisco, California, United States A powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for client-side fuzzy search. FreeOpen source	0.9%
-	Luigi's Box Bratislava, Slovakia A product search and discovery platform for e-commerce websites that improves how customers find and explore products through AI-driven search, recommendations, and merchandising tools. $$$	0.9%
21	AddSearch Helsinki, Finland An enterprise-grade site search platform featuring AI-powered answers, search personalization, smart recommendations, and a robust API. $155+/month	0.9%
22	Typesense Sugar Land, Texas, United States An open-source in-memory fuzzy search engine. FreeOpen source$21.60+/month	0.6%
-	Swiftype Amsterdam, Netherlands A cloud-based search platform that delivers customizable search functionality for websites, web applications, and enterprise data sources. $79+/month	0.5%
24	Pagefind Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand A fully static JavaScript search library that aims to perform well on large sites while using as little bandwidth as possible. FreeOpen source	0.4%
25	Unbxd Mumbai, India A powerful product discovery platform that includes relevant search, navigation, merchnadizing and analytics. $$$	0.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,410 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.