Alexandria

Open, decentralized search index project aiming to build a community-owned alternative to Google and Bing.

By Nathan KesslerUpdated May 8, 2026

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Independent web indexes maintain their own crawl of the web, separate from Google or Bing. This independence is valuable for AI applications that need unbiased search results, want to avoid rate limits on commercial search engines, or need specialized coverage. Several of these indexes are open source, allowing full transparency into how results are ranked.

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Features

—JS Rendering

✓Structured Output

✓Open Source

✓Self-Hosted Option

Pricing:Free

Editorial assessment

The decentralized search vision – community-owned indexing to prevent any single entity from controlling web search. Philosophically important as Google and Bing consolidate. Very early-stage with limited index coverage. The decentralized model faces real scalability challenges. Worth supporting ideologically, but not ready for production use.

How Alexandria compares

Common Crawl

Common Crawl provides a proven open archive today rather than a theoretical decentralized future.

Stract

Stract is another open-source search project but with a more focused, centralized approach.

Brave Search API

Brave Search API delivers independent search results at production scale today.

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