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MeiliSearchvssentora-core

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MeiliSearchsentora-core
Score82/10049/100
Rank in category#3 of 41 in Search Engines#8 of 10 in Control Panel
GitHub stars59 706676
Stars, last 30 days+302+0
Stable releases, 12 months330
Latest releasev1.56.0 · 26 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageRustPHP

Which one should you pick?

MeiliSearch scores 82/100 against 49/100 for sentora-core, so it is the safer default.

MeiliSearch ships more often: 33 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sentora-core.

MeiliSearch is growing faster right now (+302 stars in 30 days).

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