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Typesense

Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant, open-source search engine designed for developer productivity. It provides instant search experiences with support for full-text search, faceting, filtering, sorting, geo-based search, vector search, and conversational AI search. Typesense is available as an open-source self-hosted solution or as a managed cloud service via Typesense Cloud.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Typesense the way a machine reads it — 132 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Typesense scores 42.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Typesense Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Typesense

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Typesense. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Typesense Analytics Events API

Log and retrieve user interaction events such as clicks, conversions, and visits for tracking search behavior and personalization.

Typesense Analytics Operations API

Operational endpoints for managing the analytics subsystem.

Typesense Analytics Rules API

Create and manage analytics rules that control how search queries and user events are aggregated for query suggestions and relevance tuning.

Typesense Cluster Management API

Create, retrieve, update, and terminate Typesense Cloud clusters. Manage cluster lifecycle and generate Typesense Server API keys.

Typesense Configuration Changes API

Schedule, retrieve, list, and cancel configuration changes to running clusters such as memory upgrades, version changes, and HA toggles.

Typesense Server Configuration Parameters API

Manage Typesense Server configuration parameters for cloud clusters.

Open Collections 28

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Typesense Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Typesense GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema provides a conceptual type system for the [Typesense](https://typesense.org) open-source search engine REST API. Typesense is a fast, typo-tolerant search en...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Typesense Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Open Source: GPL v3 self-hosted, free at any scale
Cloud Small from ~$0.045/hr (0.5 GB RAM, single node)
Cloud Medium from ~$0.18/hr (2 GB RAM, single node)
Cloud HA Multi-node: ~3x base for 3-node cluster
Enterprise custom: dedicated support, self-hosted Enterprise license
Typo-tolerant full-text search
Geosearch and faceted search
Vector search and hybrid search
Federated multi-collection search
REST API with scoped API keys
Configurable per-key rate limits
InstantSearch.js compatibility
Auto-suggestions and autocomplete
Synonyms, stop words, stemming
Curation rules for promoted results
Open-source SDKs for many languages

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Typesense Context

0 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Typesense API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 66

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Typesense Analytics Event

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEventCreateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsEventCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsRule

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsRuleCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKey

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeySchema

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiKeysResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cluster

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterApiKeys

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterCreateSchema

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterUpdateSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Typesense Collection

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAlias

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAliasesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionAliasSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionSchema

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionUpdateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurationChange

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigurationChangeCreateSchema

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationalSearchResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModelCreateSchema

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConversationModelUpdateSchema

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationItem

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationItemSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationSet

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurationSetSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DirtyValues

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmbedConfig

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FacetCounts

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Field

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HealthStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexAction

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiSearchParameters

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiSearchResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModelCreateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLSearchModelUpdateSchema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Preset

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PresetUpsertSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaChangeStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Typesense Search Result

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchGroupedHit

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchHighlight

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResult

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResultHit

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServerConfigurationParameters

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StemmingDictionary

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopwordsSet

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopwordsSetUpsertSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SuccessStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymItemSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymSet

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SynonymSetSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorCollectionResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorCollectionSchema

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorField

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorMultiSearchParameters

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorSearchHit

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorSearchResult

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoiceQueryModelConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Typesense Collection Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Typesense Search Result Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Typesense Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Typesense Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Typesense Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Typesense Agentic Access

95 operations · 52 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

95 operations · 52 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Typesense — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Typesense, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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