Is Meilisearch Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.”
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 85/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
Meilisearch’s main branch received 353 commits in the last 91 days, against 563 in the same 91 days a year earlier (−37%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 59,598 stars on GitHub. GitHub does not recognise its licence as a standard one, so read the licence file before commercial use.
Meilisearch usage: downloads and installs
getmeili/meilisearchmeilisearchDownload and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Docker Hub reports an all-time total. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: Docker Hub, Homebrew analytics, read 18 Oct 2026, 19:52 UTC.
Meilisearch security practices and adoption
Security practices
OpenSSF Scorecard, an automated review of how the repository is run
- Code review10/10
- Branch protection3/10
- Dangerous workflow10/10
- Pinned dependencies9/10
- Security policy10/10
All 14 checks
- Maintained10/10
- OpenSSF Best Practices badge0/10
- Token permissions0/10
- Binary artifacts10/10
- License9/10
- Fuzzing10/10
- Signed releases0/10
- Static analysis (SAST)9/10
- Packaging10/10
Full report, run 24 Aug 2026
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionv1.55.0
- Published12 Oct 2026
- Downloads of its 14 files4,936
- Contributors229
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: OpenSSF Scorecard, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 20:35 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 32.1 / 35 | 353 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 12.5 / 20 | 63% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 3 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 6 days ago |
| Community | 15.4 / 20 | 79 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 322. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
Meilisearch: common questions
Is Meilisearch still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, Meilisearch received 353 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 15 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 85 out of 100.
What is the latest Meilisearch release?
The latest GitHub release of Meilisearch is v1.55.0, published on 12 October 2026.
How many people contribute to Meilisearch?
GitHub lists 229 contributors for Meilisearch. 79 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does Meilisearch use?
GitHub does not match the Meilisearch licence to a standard one, so read its licence file before commercial use.
Is Meilisearch secure?
We cannot say whether the code is free of vulnerabilities. What can be measured is how the project is run: the OpenSSF Scorecard gives Meilisearch 7.2 out of 10 for security practices (run 24 August 2026), covering checks such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies. Read the full report and the project’s security policy before relying on it.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 59,590 | 353 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 59,584 | 363 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for Meilisearch since then.
Other vector databases
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meilisearch | Active | 59.6k | 353 | −37% |
| Milvus | Active | 46.4k | 651 | +18% |
| Faiss | Active | 41.2k | 164 | +59% |
| Qdrant | Active | 35.1k | 709 | +104% |
| Chroma | Slowing down | 29.5k | 115 | −66% |
| Typesense | Slowing down | 27.0k | 31 | −62% |
| pgvector | Active | 23.4k | 118 | +269% |
| Weaviate | Active | 16.9k | 3,561 | +143% |
| LanceDB | Active | 11.7k | 482 | +219% |
| sqlite-vec | No recent commits | 8.2k | 0 | — |
| Vespa | Active | 7.1k | 1,835 | +28% |
| Marqo | No recent commits | 5.0k | 0 | −100% |
| pgvecto.rs | No recent commits | 2.2k | 0 | — |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.