meilisearch

    meilisearch/meilisearch

    #261 this week

    A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

    ai
    api
    database
    llm
    app-search
    enterprise-search
    faceting
    full-text-search
    fuzzy-search
    Rust
    NOASSERTION
    59.4K stars
    2.7K forks
    59.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #83 among AI repositories tracked this week, and #83 over the last 30 days; #261 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 10%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 229 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #27 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 8, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a lightning-fast, AI-powered hybrid search engine API for seamless integration into apps and websites.
    • Delivers highly relevant search results with typo tolerance, semantic and full-text hybrid search, and instant search-as-you-type performance.
    • Use for building fast, typo-tolerant search interfaces in ecommerce platforms with faceted filtering and sorting.
    • Use for implementing multi-tenant SaaS applications requiring personalized, secure search experiences with fine-grained API key permissions.
    • Use for creating location-aware applications that leverage geosearch to filter and sort results based on geographic data.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

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    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    ⚡ A lightning-fast search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow 🔍

    Meilisearch helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out of the box to speed up your workflow.

    See the list of all our example apps in our demos repository.

    Excerpt from the meilisearch/meilisearch README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 9: +9Jul 13: +29Jul 14: +36Jul 15: +7Jul 22: +13Aug 31: +8

    +966 stars over 82 days across 14 snapshot days; best day +36 on Jul 14.

    Forks

    2.7K+113

    Open issues

    316+8

    Compared with peers in AI

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Sep 27, by 7-day star growth

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