# Typesense — developer ecosystem report

> Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy search engine

- GitHub org: `typesense`
- Category: dev_tool
- Overall score: 44.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #371
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-20

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 72.0 | #84 | ~22% |
| Education | 82.0 | #87 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 44.0 | #264 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 40.0 | #348 | ~16% |
| Reach | 14.0 | #980 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 31.0 | #478 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/typesense
- Website: https://typesense.org
- Docs: https://typesense.org/docs

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 31,340 |
| Forks | 2,265 |
| Open issues | 1,272 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [typesense](https://github.com/typesense/typesense) | 26,453 | C++ | Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolera |
| [typesense-js](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-js) | 566 | TypeScript | JavaScript / TypeScript client for Typesense |
| [typesense-instantsearch-adapter](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-instantsearch-adapter) | 525 | JavaScript | A JS adapter library to build rich search interfaces with Typesense and InstantSearch.js |
| [showcase-recipe-search](https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search) | 512 | JavaScript | Instantly search 2M cooking recipes using Typesense Search (an open source alternative to Algolia / ElasticSearch) ⚡ 🥘  |
| [typesense-go](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-go) | 317 | Go | Go client for Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense |
| [typesense-php](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-php) | 273 | PHP | PHP client for Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense |
| [typesense-python](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-python) | 246 | Python | Python client for Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense |
| [showcase-songs-search](https://github.com/typesense/showcase-songs-search) | 204 | JavaScript | A site to instantly search 32M songs from the MusicBrainz songs database, using Typesense Search (an open source alterna |
| [firestore-typesense-search](https://github.com/typesense/firestore-typesense-search) | 182 | JavaScript | Firebase Extension to automatically push Firestore documents to Typesense for full-text search with typo tolerance, face |
| [showcase-books-search](https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search) | 176 | JavaScript | A site to instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary using Typesense Search (an open source alternative to Algolia / El |
| [laravel-scout-typesense-driver](https://github.com/typesense/laravel-scout-typesense-driver) | 146 | PHP | Laravel Scout Driver for Typesense |
| [typesense-docsearch-scraper](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-docsearch-scraper) | 140 | Python | A fork of Algolia's awesome DocSearch Scraper, customized to index data in Typesense (an open source alternative to Algo |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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