# marqo-ai/marqo

Ecommerce Search and Discovery - marqo.ai

Repository: https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/marqo
Homepage: https://www.marqo.ai/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: multi-modal, search-engine, machine-learning, ecommerce
Last push: 2026-08-08T08:50:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 66, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1493, "days_push": 25, "days_rel": 149, "gap_med": 4.0, "n_releases_24m": 63}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5027, forks 238 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.929793+00:00)

## What it is
Marqo is an AI-native ecommerce search and product discovery platform offering semantic search, personalization, recommendations, and merchandising controls for online retailers. Its open-source repository is deprecated and no longer receives updates, with development focused on the commercial marqo.ai platform.

## Use cases
- add semantic product search to an online store
- build personalized product recommendations from clickstream data
- replace Solr or Elasticsearch-based ecommerce search
- implement typo-tolerant multilingual search for a catalog
- power conversational shopping and agentic product discovery
- automate search ranking and merchandising rules

## When to choose
- you want an AI-powered ecommerce search and discovery suite with behavioral learning
- you need search, recommendations, and merchandising controls from one vendor
- you are a mid-market or enterprise retailer replacing legacy search tools

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained open-source project - the OSS repo is deprecated
- you need a general-purpose vector database rather than an ecommerce platform
- you cannot adopt a commercial SaaS product

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: search-engine, vector-database, machine-learning, rag
- domain: e-commerce, machine-learning, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: semantic-search, ecommerce-search, product-discovery, multi-modal, recommendations, personalization, deprecated-open-source, search, docker

## Member repositories
- marqo-ai/marqo (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.929793+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:28.553286+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.929793+00:00, sha 778d5390fcff)
  - homepage: https://www.marqo.ai/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:09.899669+00:00, sha 04390f0d4c1f)
  - site_page: https://docs.marqo.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:09.909070+00:00, sha e29285718bf4)
  - site_page: https://www.marqo.ai/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:09.912320+00:00, sha 5633043e1e23)
  - site_page: https://www.marqo.ai/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:09.910872+00:00, sha 496ad12c29e7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.