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Meilisearch

Instant search with delightful DX — 60k stars.

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About

Meilisearch is the lightning-fast search engine developers love: typo-tolerant, instant results, and an API so pleasant it feels designed — 59.6k stars. Licensing: dual MIT (core) + Business Source License 1.1 (Enterprise Edition parts) — SPDX MIT AND BUSL-1.1; the core you self-host is MIT, EE features are source-available. It's the default 'add great search to my app this afternoon' choice, with a managed Cloud for zero-ops.

What it can do

  • **Instant**: <50ms search as you type
  • **Typo tolerant**: configurable fuzziness
  • **Great DX**: intuitive API, dashboard
  • **Faceting/filters/synonyms**: full search toolkit
  • **Multi-language**: 20+ languages

Setup

```bash

docker run -p 7700:7700 getmeili/meilisearch:v1.12

```

```python

import meilisearch

client = meilisearch.Client("http://localhost:7700")

client.index("movies").add_documents([{"id": 1, "title": "Dune"}])

```

Docs: meilisearch.com/docs.

Prerequisites

Docker for self-host; or Meilisearch Cloud.

Use cases

searchinstant searche-commercedocs

Works with

Generic APIcustom

Trust score — 9/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 59,552 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers); last push 0d ago; 64 releases/12mo; 321 open issues. Manual review: beloved instant search (59.6k stars), delightful DX; BSL for EE features. License: Dual MIT (core) + BUSL-1.1 (Enterprise Edition parts) — SPDX MIT AND BUSL-1.1; core is MIT, EE features source-available.

★ 59,552 GitHub stars

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.9/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
9.8/10
Openness · license + docs
8.6/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
9.0/10
  • · 59,552 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
  • · last push 0d ago; 64 releases/12mo; 321 open issues
  • · manual review: beloved instant search (59.6k stars), delightful DX; BSL for EE features

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