Typesense

license

GPL-3.0(OSI)

source

public

core-gated

ungated

GPL-3.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated. The README states the GPL choice plainly - the project uses copyleft so that modifications stay open - and copyleft does not cap who may use the software or at what scale, so it sits on the OSI tier. Typesense Cloud and paid support are separate products beside a complete core, not functionality withheld from it.

• https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/v31/LICENSE.txt recorded 2026-08-18

  LICENSE file is the verbatim GPL-3.0 text

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

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id GPL-3.0, private false, archived false, default branch v31 - for typesense/typesense.

• https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/v31/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README describes a typo-tolerant in-memory search engine with faceting, filtering, geosearch and vector search, its GPL choice explained as keeping modifications open, and paid support and Typesense Cloud offered separately, with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside it.

26,444 GitHub stars, which lands in the >10K stars band of the stars scale, level 3. The `typesense` package on PyPI is the Python client for a running server, so its downloads are not the product's. With no published deployment figure the stars scale applies, capped at 3.

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

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 26,444 - for typesense/typesense.

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/typesense/typesense/blob/v31/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

  README still documents a typo-tolerant in-memory search engine with faceting, filtering, geosearch and vector search, its GPL choice explained as keeping modifications open, and paid support and Typesense Cloud offered separately.