diff --git a/examples/base.py b/examples/base.py
index a1e12e7..13cce2a 100644
--- a/examples/base.py
+++ b/examples/base.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 import click
 import uvicorn
 from faker import Faker
-from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Query
-from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
+from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict
 from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey, Integer, String, event, select
 from sqlalchemy.engine import Engine
 from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession, async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
@@ -91,16 +91,15 @@ class Constants(Filter.Constants):
 
 class UserFilter(Filter):
     name: str | None = None
-    name__ilike: str | None = None
-    name__like: str | None = None
+    name__contains: str | None = None
+    name__icontains: str | None = None
     name__neq: str | None = None
     address: AddressFilter | None = FilterDepends(with_prefix("address", AddressFilter))
     age__lt: int | None = None
-    age__gte: int = Field(Query(description="this is a nice description"))
-    """Required field with a custom description.
+    age__gt: int | None = None
+    age__contains: str | None = None
+    age__icontains: str | None = None
 
-    See: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/4700 for why we need to wrap `Query` in `Field`.
-    """
     order_by: list[str] = ["age"]
     search: str | None = None
 
diff --git a/fastapi_filter_sqlalchemy/filter_sqlalchemy.py b/fastapi_filter_sqlalchemy/filter_sqlalchemy.py
index 23a1a9d..38e0efe 100644
--- a/fastapi_filter_sqlalchemy/filter_sqlalchemy.py
+++ b/fastapi_filter_sqlalchemy/filter_sqlalchemy.py
@@ -165,15 +165,22 @@ def _custom_filter_field(
         :param field_name: Name of the filter field.
         :return: Returns the query.
         """
-        # Делаем провреку, что такого поля нету в модели
-        # Если нету то вызываем метод get_field_name
-        # Передаем в него запрос и значение.
+        # We check that such a field does not exist in the models.
+        # If not, we call the get_field_name method.
+        # We pass the request and value to it.
         if hasattr(self.Constants.model, field_name):
             model_field = getattr(self.Constants.model, field_name)
             if to_date:
                 model_field = func.date(model_field)
             if operator != "likein" and operator != "between":
-                query = query.filter(getattr(model_field, operator)(value))
+                if (
+                    operator in ("like", "ilike")
+                    and not isinstance(model_field.type, String)
+                    and isinstance(value, str)
+                ):
+                    query = query.filter(getattr(func.cast(model_field, String), operator)(value))
+                else:
+                    query = query.filter(getattr(model_field, operator)(value))
             elif operator == "between":
                 query = query.filter(getattr(model_field, operator)(*value))
             else:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0733d5c..73aab41 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ignore_missing_imports = true
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "fastapi-filter-sqlalchemy"
-version = "0.0.2"
+version = "0.0.3"
 description = "FastAPI filter SQLAlchemy"
 authors = ["Sergey V. Elfimov <elfimovserg@gmail.com>"]
 packages = [{include = "fastapi_filter_sqlalchemy"}]
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 4ed584b..7403272 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ class UserFilter(Filter):  # type: ignore[misc, valid-type]
         age__gte: int | None = None
         age__in: list[int] | None = None
         age__range: list[int] | None = None
+        age__contains: str | None = None
+        age__icontains: str | None = None
         address: AddressFilter | None = FilterDepends(  # type: ignore[valid-type]
             with_prefix("address", AddressFilter), by_alias=True
         )
diff --git a/tests/test_filter.py b/tests/test_filter.py
index f286924..60757d0 100644
--- a/tests/test_filter.py
+++ b/tests/test_filter.py
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
         [{"name__not": "Mr Praline", "age__gte": 21, "age__lt": 50}, 2],
         [{"age__in": [1]}, 1],
         [{"age__in": [21, 33]}, 3],
+        [{"age__icontains": "2"}, 2],
+        [{"age__contains": "21"}, 2],
+        [{"age__icontains": "150"}, 0],
+        [{"age__icontains": "1"}, 3],
         [{"address": {"country__not_in": ["France"]}}, 3],
         [{"age__in": "1"}, 1],
         [{"age__in": "21,33"}, 3],