Closed suites
Strong features, but ranking you can't look into, and a contract that is hard to get out of.
Open source · Built on Meilisearch
Search that understands commerce.And shows its work.
OrbSearch turns your catalog into fast search and navigation that knows what shoppers mean, follows your rules and explains every result.
Self-hosted · AGPL + MIT
grey velvet sofa
CategorySofasColorGrey
8 of 5,098 · 6.0 ms · Release d48231f
- Autocomplete, p95
- <25ms
- Publish to a live pin
- <1s
- Results explained
- 100%
- Caches to invalidate
- 0
For a catalog of 10,000 productsHow we measure
Takes your export as it is
Merchant Center XML
CSV
TSV
Excel
JSON
Gzip
03 · The problem
Commerce search is a black box.Or a box of parts.
Generic engines
Fast and open, but they can't tell a sofa from a sofa bed. Each team rebuilds the rest.
OrbSearch
Meilisearch retrieves. OrbSearch understands the query, applies your rules and shows why.
04 · How it works
From export to live search.Your shop stays the source of truth.
- 01
Drop your export.
Up to 2 GB of Merchant Center XML, CSV, Excel or JSON, as your shop writes it.
- 02
Read by its own data.
Units, colors and sizes are read from the values. What isn't lands in the report.
- 03
Publish a release.
Every setting is data in a release. Preview the draft, publish it, roll back in a click.
- 04
Live in seconds.
Prices and stock change in place, without a rebuild. Answers name their release.
Snapshot 2026-10-09Release 79f2487Live
05 · Shoppers
Understands what shoppers mean.In their words and their language.
graues sofa
ColorGrauCategorySofas
149 results
Words become filters.
“graues sofa” finds the sofas, already filtered to grey.
weiss vase
ColorWeißCategoryVasen
10 results
Forgiving, but exact.
“weiss” finds Weiß, but a typo in a part number finds no other.
couch
CategorySofas
couch, sofa
394 results
Synonyms in one line.
Write “couch, sofa”, press Enter, and couch finds the sofas.
teppich 160 x 230
Size160 × 230 cm
teppich unter 200 €
Price≤ 200 €
Units and sizes.
“160 x 230” becomes a size and “unter 200 €” a price range.
sof
- Sofas
- Soft White
- Sofabett
- Sofatisch
- Soft Brass
Your catalog suggests.
Categories, brands and values as they type: 20.6 ms at p95.
yellow velvet sofa
ColorYellowCategorySofas
21 results without Color Yellow
Never a dead end.
When nothing matches, it drops its guesses and says which.
06 · Merchants
Every result explains itself.Why it's here. Why it isn't.
grey velvet sofa
CategorySofasColorGrey
Kaldern Frederick Mid-Century Modern Tufted Velvet Sofa Couch, 77.5"W, Grey
Position 1 of 8
- Pin
Pinned to position 1 by the rule “Velvet in autumn”. · until 30 Nov
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
Villa Marden Westcott Tufted Loveseat Sofa Couch, 60"W, Velvet
Position 2 of 8
- Boost
The rule “Velvet in autumn” boosts it. · until 30 Nov
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
- Text
Found by every word of the query.
- Score
Its business score of 0.29 orders it among the hits that match as well.
rating 0.22sales_30d 0.07released_at 0.00
Kaldern Emerly Modern Sofa Chaise, 96"W
Position 3 of 8
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
- Text
Found by every word of the query.
- Score
Its business score of 0.81 orders it among the hits that match as well.
sales_30d 0.38rating 0.30released_at 0.13
Kaldern Eva Mid-Century Modern Tufted Velvet Down-Filled Loveseat Sofa Couch, 60.5"W
Position 4 of 8
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
- Text
Found by every word of the query.
- Score
Its business score of 0.63 orders it among the hits that match as well.
sales_30d 0.35rating 0.28released_at 0.00
Kaldern Emerly Modern Sectional Sofa, 96"W
Position 5 of 8
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
- Text
Found by every word of the query.
- Score
Its business score of 0.56 orders it among the hits that match as well.
rating 0.28sales_30d 0.27released_at 0.00
Kaldern Emerly Modern Loveseat Sofa, 63"W
Position 6 of 8
- Query
“sofa” named Category Sofas
- Query
“grey” named Color Grey
- Text
Found by every word of the query.
- Score
Its business score of 0.44 orders it among the hits that match as well.
rating 0.24sales_30d 0.19released_at 0.00
Kaldern Frederick Mid-Century Modern Tufted Velvet Sofa Couch, 77.5"W, Forest Green
Not on the page
- Live index
- Channel
- Category
- Filters
“grey” named the filter Color Grey, which drops it. Remove the filter to see it.
Release 9e25efbSnapshot 60e5960
Arrange without a ticket.
Pin by drag.
Drag a product to the first place, and the others make room.
Banners in their slot.
A banner takes its place in the grid, for the window you set.
Publish in place.
Every change goes live as a release you can take back.
07 · Developers
An API that reads like prose.Typed, documented, ready for agents.
Every type in one request.
Products, categories, brands and content, in sections.
Your URLs stay yours.
Resolve any path of your shop, with real 301 and 410 answers.
Parts you can swap.
React components restyled by tokens, or the typed client.
import { ProductTile, useTile, type TileProps } from "@orbsearch/react";export function ShopTile(props: TileProps) {return (<ProductTile.Root {...props}><ProductTile.Title /><ProductTile.Media><ProductTile.Image /><ProductTile.Badges><QuickBadge /></ProductTile.Badges></ProductTile.Media><ProductTile.Price /><ProductTile.Brand /></ProductTile.Root>);}function QuickBadge() {const { product } = useTile();if (product.delivery === null || product.delivery.max > 2) return null;return <ProductTile.Badge>Schnell bei dir</ProductTile.Badge>;}import { createSearch } from "@orbsearch/client";const search = createSearch({ endpoint: "http://127.0.0.1:7800" });const response = await search.query("sofa", { locale: "de", filters: { color: ["grey"] } });const product = await search.product({ id: "SOFA-ASKA-2" }, { locale: "de" });const page = await search.resolve("/wohnen/sofas?color=grey");curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:7800/v1/search?query=graues+sofa&per_page=2'curl -s http://127.0.0.1:7800/v1/search -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \-d '{ "query": "graues sofa", "filters": { "width": { "lte": 220 } }, "per_page": 2 }'const navigate = useNavigate();useEffect(() => {const registration = new AbortController();registerAgentTools(search, {locale: "de",signal: registration.signal,navigate: (href) => navigate(href, { preventScrollReset: true }),}).catch(reportError);return () => registration.abort();}, [navigate]);Response
POST /v1/search {"query":"graues sofa","per_page":2,"debug":true}{"release": "d48231fd8ff340a3cff76b2c","query": {"typed": "graues sofa","searched": "graues sofa"},"sections": [{"type": "product","total": 149,"hits": [{"entity": "product:B07BW8P2DS","fields": {"title": "Fjordholm Andover Schonbezug Sitzgruppe, leinen","price": 1459.9}},{"entity": "product:B07JC4M6VR","fields": {"title": "Kaldern Rockwood Modernes Sofa, Polyester, dunkelgrau","price": 1006.99}}]}],"trace": {"steps": [{"step": "resolve","detections": [{"words": "sofa","as": {"category": { "within": "wohnen/sofas" }},"entry": "the title \"Sofas\" of the category wohnen/sofas"},{"words": "graues","as": { "color": "grey" },"entry": "the label \"Grau\" of the color grey"}]}],"timings": {"total_ms": 4.77,"own_ms": 0.6,"before_engine_ms": 0.21}}}08 · Engine room
Fast without a cache.Pure computation and one engine call.
The Query API is written in Rust and compiles your configuration when you publish. A query is pure computation plus one call to Meilisearch, so nothing can go stale.
Search · “grey velvet sofa”Median of 50 runs
5.66ms100× slower
Understand and plan0.27 ms
Meilisearch · multi-search4.97 ms
Assemble and explain0.42 ms
Rust API 0.68 ms
The rest is one call to Meilisearch
- Autocomplete, p95
- 20.6ms
- Product lookup, p95
- 3.0ms
- Search, p95
- 18.9ms
09 · Every shopper
Built for every shopper.WCAG 2.2 AA is our release gate.
Keyboard, screen readers, visible focus and reduced motion are built and tested with every component, as EU law has asked of online shops since June 2025.
10 · Open source
Yours to run.Yours to read.
$ make .env$ docker compose up --detach --waitpostgresLivemeilisearchLiveorbsearchLiveindexerLivecontrolLive# then upload your catalog and publish a release$ curl -s 'localhost:7800/v1/search?query=sofa'{"query_id": "01a12053-a6a4-76bc-922e-4b25f975bd2b","release": "d48231fd8ff340a3cff76b2c","snapshot": "60e5960671ed88e632e9836a","query": {"typed": "sofa","searched": "sofa"},$
- Server
- AGPL-3.0
- Client and components
- MIT
- Contributions
- DCO