Best Ivory Search alternatives

7 search plugins compared with Ivory Search on features, pricing and WordPress.org stats.

Content-rich or document-heavy sites that need custom fields, taxonomies and files searched with tunable relevance.

+ Has Relevance weighting, PDF & document search, Did you mean? suggestions and 1 more $199/yr

Sites that want a free, self-hosted live search bar now, with a clear upgrade path to advanced filtering and document search.

+ Has Relevance weighting, PDF & document search, Did you mean? suggestions and 1 more €39/yr

Blogs, publishers and documentation sites that want relevance-ranked search with logs and synonyms without paying.

+ Has Relevance weighting, PDF & document search, Did you mean? suggestions and 1 more €120/yr

Large publishers and WooCommerce stores with technical teams that need scalable, tunable Elasticsearch-powered search.

+ Has Relevance weighting, PDF & document search, Did you mean? suggestions and 2 more − Lacks Custom search forms, Multilingual support $348/yr

Developer-led and content-heavy sites that want Algolia's hosted, typo-tolerant search inside WordPress.

+ Has Relevance weighting, Did you mean? suggestions, External or hosted index and 1 more − Lacks Custom search forms $99/yr

WooCommerce stores that want a fast, attractive live product search bar with minimal setup.

− Lacks Filters & facets $59/yr

Small to mid-sized sites and stores that want hosted instant search with minimal setup.

+ Has Relevance weighting, Did you mean? suggestions, External or hosted index − Lacks Search analytics, Multilingual support $99.96/yr