MeiliSearch
MeiliSearch is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Search Engines category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Rust. It is a self-hosted alternative to Algolia and ships a Docker image. It has 59,672 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 59,672
- Forks
- 2,759
- Open issues
- 249
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,091
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.55.0Oct 12, 2026
- Created
- Apr 23, 2018
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 2,091 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors34 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,091 |
| Latest release | v1.55.0 (Oct 12, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 338 |
| Open issues | 249 |
| Open pull requests | 71 |
| Good first issues | 20 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Apr 23, 2018 |
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About MeiliSearch
Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch.
Topics
- search-engine
- typo-tolerance
- site-search
- database
- enterprise-search
- search
- app-search
- full-text-search
- geosearch
- instantsearch
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Is MeiliSearch free and open source?
Yes. MeiliSearch is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run MeiliSearch with Docker?
Yes. MeiliSearch provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to MeiliSearch?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to MeiliSearch include ElasticSearch, SearXNG and Typesense. MeiliSearch itself is a self-hosted alternative to Algolia.
Is MeiliSearch actively maintained?
The most recent commit to MeiliSearch was on Oct 23, 2026 with 2,091 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.55.0, published Oct 12, 2026. It had 249 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.