⚡ Site Search Software in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, site search software is used on 0.8% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 64K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Elasticsearch with an impressive share of 33.1%, followed by Algolia with 28.5% and Google Programmable Search Engine with 18.2%.

Elasticsearch 33.1%
Algolia 28.5%
Google Programmable Search Engine 18.2%
DocSearch 12%
Solr 6%
Coveo 3.3%
Pagefind 2.3%
Swiftype 1.9%
🔎 Lunr 1.6%
AddSearch 1%
Meilisearch 0.6%
Unbxd 0.6%
Boost 0.6%
Search.io 0.6%
Typesense 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Elasticsearch ^(-2)
4. DocSearch ^(-6)
6. Coveo ^(-10)
7. Pagefind ^(-12)
8. Swiftype ^(-12)
9. 🔎 Lunr ^(-8)
10. AddSearch ^(-13)
11. Meilisearch ^(-13)
12. Unbxd ^(-15)
14. Search.io ^(-19)

✨ Best Site Search Software

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 site search software solutions used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	33.1%
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$$$	28.5%
3	Google Programmable Search Engine Mountain View, California, United States A platform that lets users create a custom search engine for a website or a collection of websites. Free$$$	18.2%
4	DocSearch Palo Alto, California, United States A free search service designed for developer documentation websites. FreeOpen source	12%
5	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	6%
6	Coveo Quebec City, Canada An extensible cloud-based search, recommendation, and personalization platform that uses AI and machine learning. $600+/month	3.3%
7	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	2.3%
8	Swiftype Amsterdam, Netherlands A cloud-based search platform that delivers customizable search functionality for websites, web applications, and enterprise data sources. $79+/month	1.9%
9	🔎 Lunr Cape Town, South Africa A small full-text search JavaScript library for use in the browser. FreeOpen source	1.6%
10	AddSearch Helsinki, Finland An enterprise-grade site search platform featuring AI-powered answers, search personalization, smart recommendations, and a robust API. $155+/month	1%
11	Meilisearch Paris, France An open-source AI-powered hybrid search engine for applications and websites that combines keyword-based and vector-based search to retrieve results using both lexical matching and semantic similarity. FreeOpen source$30+/month	0.6%
12	Unbxd Mumbai, India A powerful product discovery platform that includes relevant search, navigation, merchnadizing and analytics. $$$	0.6%
13	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	0.6%
14	Search.io Palo Alto, California, United States A real-time search service that has been acquired by Algolia.	0.6%
15	Typesense Sugar Land, Texas, United States An open-source in-memory fuzzy search engine. FreeOpen source$21.60+/month	0.4%
16	Site Search 360 Dresden, Germany A cloud-based site search platform with e-commerce support, JavaScript crawling, and YouTube video indexing. Free$9+/month	0.4%
17	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	0.4%
18	Acquia Search Boston, Massachusetts, United States A Solr search service delivered as a SaaS in the Acquia Cloud that enables search on Drupal websites. $141+/month	0.4%
19	Fuse.js San Francisco, California, United States A powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for client-side fuzzy search. FreeOpen source	0.4%
20	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	0.4%
21	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	0.2%
22	Flexsearch Berlin, Germany A full-text search JavaScript library focused on search speed and memory efficiency. FreeOpen source	0.2%
23	Searchanise San Francisco, California, United States A sophisticated website search engine for e-commerce stores. Free$19+/month	0.2%
24	Yandex Site Search Moscow, Russia A customizable solution from the Russian search engine Yandex for adding search functionality to websites. Free	0.2%
25	Texis Cleveland, Ohio, United States A full-text search engine software platform. $$$	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Site Search in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 64,974 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 35 site search software solutions across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.