Home Projects typesense typesense license, foundation and stars Search and vector · GPL v3 (open source) · 27,100 stars
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
GPL v3 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2017.
Latest release No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history Repository typesense/typesense · created Jan 18, 2017 Website typesense.org Language C++ Foundation None; run by its maintainers GitHub detects GPL-3.0 Stars per week 85 (GitHub weekly snapshots) Weekly snapshots Week of Bar Stars Nov 2, 2026 27,100 Oct 26, 2026 27,063 Oct 12, 2026 27,000 Oct 5, 2026 26,814 Sep 21, 2026 26,593
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