--- title: Tantivy Reviews meta\_title: 'Tantivy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Tantivy works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 8 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-17' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Tantivy Reviews & Product Details It is closer to Apache Lucene than to Elasticsearch or Apache Solr in the sense it is not an off-the-shelf search engine server, but rather a crate that can be used to build such a search engine. Companies like Element, Humanfirst, and Nuclia have used Tantivy to unleash the horse-powers in their search queries. There are many ways to use Tantivy. Tantivy can be run in the browser with a WASM file. For Ruby-lovers, Tantiny offers close Ruby bindings for Tantivy . Lastly, you can install Python bindings in Tantivy-Py repo. Features of Tantivy include, but are not limited to: - Full-text search - Configurable tokenizer (stemming available for 17 Latin languages with third party support for Chinese (tantivy-jieba and cang-jie), Japanese (lindera, Vaporetto, and tantivy-tokenizer-tiny-segmenter) and Korean (lindera + lindera-ko-dic-builder) - Fast (check out the 🐎 ? benchmark ? 🐎) - Tiny startup time (\<10ms), perfect for command-line tools - BM25 scoring (the same as Lucene) - Natural query language (e.g. (michael AND jackson) OR "king of pop") - Phrase queries search (e.g. "michael jackson") - Incremental indexing - Multithreaded indexing (indexing English Wikipedia takes \< 3 minutes on my desktop) - Mmap directory - SIMD integer compression when the platform/CPU includes the SSE2 instruction set - Single valued and multivalued u64, i64, and f64 fast fields (equivalent of doc values in Lucene) - &[u8] fast fields - Text, i64, u64, f64, dates, and hierarchical facet fields - LZ4 compressed document store - Range queries - Faceted search - Configurable indexing (optional term frequency and position indexing) - JSON Field - Aggregation Collector: range buckets, average, and stats metrics - LogMergePolicy with deletes - Searcher Warmer API - Cheesy logo with a horse (obviously an amazing feature) Non-features include: Distributed search is out of the scope of Tantivy, but if you are looking for this feature, check out Quickwit. It is our search engine, built on top of Tantivy. * * * Seller [Quickwit](https://www.g2.com/sellers/quickwit-974f340f-d6ce-4774-a9db-d6a4bd22325e) Discussions [Tantivy Community](https://www.g2.com/products/tantivy/discuss) Overview by Maxim Kraynyuchenko Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,386) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Termius](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Termius") Termius 4.8/5(270) ](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) [ ![SAP Fiori](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Fiori") SAP Fiori 4.3/5(206) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/tantivy/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 8 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) EW Emily W. Tutor Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/3/2024 ""Excelling full-text search engine library."" 5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? There before, it used to support only descending order in fast field but now I'm impressed since it supports both ascending and descending orders. Also it's easy to align numerical type priority order of columnar and query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Distivutive search is out of order since this tool doesn't offer support to it missing parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Since we started usinyTantivy, we've saved much cost and time. Also we're excelling more in this industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nashit H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nashit H.") NH Nashit H. Academic Director Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/4/2024 "Bring search engines & NLP on a common platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? Integration with other modules, in building applications. Including NLP for search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Still in the initial phases, it creates dependency issues with django, fastapi & other modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating applications to integrate NLP & voice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jim S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jim S.") JS Jim S. Logistics coordinator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/27/2024 "One of the fastest tool to create search engines" 5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? Its takes none to less time for the startup and uses full text search which is the best part of this tool with 3rd party support for Chinese and japnese coding tools. Single valued and multivalued u64, i64, and f64 fast fields it has compressed document store which makes it faster and comparatively uses less storage space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Distributive search is missing which should be there.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Making search engines more faster and reliable so users can save time.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jayden W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayden W.") JW Jayden W. Software Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/28/2024 "Flexibility of Tantivy" 5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? I like the user interface and its flexibility to create new programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Tantivy does not provide a single file format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? It is helping me create new algorithms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/30/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jobin J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jobin J.") JJ Jobin J. Sr. Logistics coordinator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/28/2024 "One of the fastest coding platform to create reliable search engines" 5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? It uses compressed documents which helps in saving lot of storage space, which makes it fast to load User inteface is quite interactive with multiple drop down features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Distributed search is out of the scope of Tantivy, hopefully this will sorted in the future updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps in creating fast and realiable search engines across various platforms such as Windows, Linux and Mac Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tiara L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tiara L.") TL Tiara L. TEAM LEAD Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/27/2024 "SUPERFAST SEARCH ENGINE" 5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? High memory consumption than other search engines. It supports the fast field in both increasing and decreasing order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? Not able to support the missing parameters If variants didn't match the error message occurs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps to create token filters Easy to use by the IT professional Create the fastest search engines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite VS Vikas S. Java Developer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/7/2023 "Quick and Fast as simple as that" 4/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? Tantivy is very good text-search engine, the best thing about this tool is that it provides very quick and Fast result for text search and It supports almost 20 languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? The users those who are not fluent in English they will frame the sentences by converting from their mother tongue to English. When it comes to search sometimes the AI is not able to frame the correct sentences that is the biggest disadvantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Our project is using Tantivy as a search engine and it has helped in searching things in different language for different part of the users. Which saves lots of time which could've been wasted on converting the native language to English Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MU Mohini U. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/4/2023 "Search Your Text Quickly With Tantivy" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Tantivy? Tantivy offers many features to search text but the feature that impressed me about it is its customizable interface. It consumes less memory on our system and searches text quickly from large data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Tantivy? There is nothing particular to dislike that can be mentioned here. However, the support for languages to search the text can be enhanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Tantivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Tantivy is very helpful when we need to search for documents quickly. it supports many languages and saves us time to search text in different languages without converting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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