Typesense
typesense/typesense
An open-source alternative to Algolia.
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences (from the repository)
- Stars
- 27,004
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-13
- Written in
- C++
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 15 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Older
v30.2, 6 months ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
60% closed
796 open · 1,199 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+54 in 9 days
27,004 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
CopyleftGPL-3.0
Free to run in-house. Distribute it, or software built on it, and that source must be released under the GPL too.
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, quoted from Typesense’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.
docker run -p 8108:8108 -v/tmp/data:/data typesense/typesense:29.0 --data-dir /data --api-key=Hu52dwsas2AdxdE
Typesense 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 (this page) | 27,004 | Active | Copyleft | Docker | C++ |
 Jina.ai | 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