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Search: October 2026
The final October 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.
AI share of voice · October 2026
709 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1Algolia▲ 0.10.1%Claude Haiku 4.5—
- 2Elasticsearch▲ 0.10.1%Claude Haiku 4.5—
- 3Meilisearch▲ 0.10.1%Claude Haiku 4.5—
- 4OpenSearch±00%not named this month—
- 5Typesense±00%not named this month—
- 6Vespa±00%not named this 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.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, Algolia is named in 0.1% of answers about search (1 of 10 name it).
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; 709 answers across 5 probe runs fed this month.