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The final September 2026 standings for “What should I use for search in my app?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.

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AI share of voice · September 2026

545 sampled answers · 10 models

  1. 1Algolia▼ 32.90%
    not named this month—
  2. 2Elasticsearch▼ 30.80%
    not named this month—
  3. 3Meilisearch▼ 27.10%
    not named this month—
  4. 4OpenSearch▼ 19.90%
    not named this month—
  5. 5Typesense▼ 26.30%
    not named this month—
  6. 6Vespa▼ 4.20%
    not named this month—

Biggest mover: Algolia ▼ 32.9 pts vs the previous month

Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.

The 3 prompts behind these standings
  • ›What should I use for search in my app? (recommendation)
  • ›What are the best Algolia alternatives? (alternatives)
  • ›Which search engine is best for a small app? (recommendation)

Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 545 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.