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Typesense, Inc.
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Typesense is a hosted, open-source search engine and cloud search service.
Is Typesense, Inc. production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Typesense, Inc. 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Typesense, Inc. (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 66/100
- Accessibility — 84/100
- Security — 10/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 89/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 49 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Startups · E-commerce businesses · Enterprises migrating from Algolia · Developers seeking alternatives to Elasticsearch · Applications requiring semantic search
Pricing
Usage-based pricing with free consulting for Algolia customers spending $1,000+/month; specific rates not listed