Meilisearch

license

MIT(core)

enterprise-dir

BUSL-1.1

source

public

core-gated

gated(advanced features including sharding and S3-streaming snapshots ship in the same repository under the Business Source License 1.1 or a commercial license, and BUSL permits non-production use only without an agreement)

MIT license body confirmed. The LICENSE body reads `SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND BUSL-1.1` and splits the work in two: the core search engine is MIT and free for commercial use, while an Enterprise Edition portion is governed by LICENSE-EE or BUSL-1.1. That is functionality withheld from the open terms inside the published tree, so the core is gated - the litellm shape, not the langchain one.

• https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-18

  LICENSE body reads 'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT AND BUSL-1.1' and states that part of the work falls under the Meilisearch Enterprise Edition, licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 per LICENSE-EE, with the other parts under the MIT license.

• https://api.github.com/repos/meilisearch/meilisearch recorded 2026-08-18

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id NOASSERTION, private false, archived false, default branch main - for meilisearch/meilisearch.

• https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README describes a search engine API with out-of-the-box full-text, semantic and hybrid search, and a license section separating the MIT core, free for commercial use, from an Enterprise Edition carrying sharding and S3-streaming snapshots, and names the separately licensed portion of the same repository rather than presenting the tree as uniformly open.

59,006 GitHub stars, which lands in the >10K stars band of the stars scale, level 3. The `meilisearch` package on PyPI is the Python client, not the engine, so its downloads measure client installs. No server deployment count is published, so the stars scale applies and caps the band at 3.

• https://api.github.com/repos/meilisearch/meilisearch recorded 2026-08-18

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 59,006 - for meilisearch/meilisearch.

Banded on the category feature matrix as complete retrieval system, distributed or cluster-capable. Placed one band below the vespa anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the persist-index-retrieve path a product provides itself, at what scale and over how many retrieval modes.

• https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README still documents a search engine API with out-of-the-box full-text, semantic and hybrid search, and a license section separating the MIT core, free for commercial use, from an Enterprise Edition carrying sharding and S3-streaming snapshots.