Jina.ai
jina-ai/jina
An open-source alternative to Algolia.
☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack (from the repository)
- Stars
- 21,854
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- 2025-03-24
- Written in
- Python
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Quiet
Last push 19 months ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Older
v3.28.0, 24 months ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
100% closed
1 open · 1,950 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
No readings yet
21,854 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
PermissiveApache-2.0
Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Docker Compose, quoted from Jina.ai’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.
jina export docker-compose flow.yml docker-compose.yml docker-compose up
Jina.ai against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Algolia, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 MeiliSearch | 59,605 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Rust |
 Qdrant | 35,134 | Active | Permissive | Docker | Rust |
 Typesense | 27,004 | Active | Copyleft | Docker | C++ |
 Jina.ai (this page) | 21,854 | Quiet | Permissive | Compose | Python |
 Zinc | 17,918 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Go |
 OpenSearch | 13,890 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Java |
 AppBase | 4,918 | Active | Permissive | ○ | JavaScript |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Algolia and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data