Datafari
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Datafari, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Datafari's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | ∞ documents · Big Data: DIY · Security: DIY · Exploitation: DIY · Relevancy Optimisation: DIY · Customer Support: DIY · Free forever |
| Initial | $9,900 a year | Max 500 000 documents · Advanced Clustering · AD, LDAP, SSO, HTTPS, ACLs · Backups, Redundancy, Monitoring, Alerts, BI · Machine Learning, Semantic, Autotuning · Customer Support · Generative AI optional, contact us · Yearly; prices valid for one year and exclude applicable taxes |
| Tailored | Priced on request | For large datasets, regulatory requirements, or a three-stage dev/preprod/prod environment · Contact us |
The facts
Each one read from Datafari's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Connectors
- A plugin mechanism lets users develop connectors for additional sources or rely on the maker’s expertise.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Crawling
- It retrieves content and metadata from data sources and supports configurable processing filters and crawl load management.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Generative AI
- Neural Datafari is an extension that uses vector search and retrieval-augmented generation to ground answers in documents the user is authorized to access.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks and email.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Community plan is described as suitable for developers and DIY users, while the site positions Datafari as an enterprise search and knowledge-management tool.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Product
- Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution that finds company data across sources and formats.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Relevance
- Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The site says Datafari can index hundreds of millions of documents across several machines and handle thousands of queries per second in a clustered architecture.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Search features
- Search includes multilingual support, spellchecking, content suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and smart autocomplete.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security
- Datafari supports AD or LDAP authentication, authorization through source-system ACLs, and HTTPS encryption for exchanges between components and users.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Community plan lists customer support as DIY, while the Initial plan lists customer support as included.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Cagnes-sur-Mer, Francechecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker
- The maker identifies France Labs as the software maker of Datafari.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The download page offers a Docker container, Debian installation, and Windows 11 build for tests only; it says RHEL is available only with Enterprise Edition.checked 5 Oct 2026
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