About Meilisearch
Meilisearch is a search and AI retrieval engine that developers add to websites and applications. It is available as an open source engine to self host or as a fully managed Meilisearch Cloud service.
The engine provides full text search that returns results as the user types, typically in under 50 milliseconds, with typo tolerance, filtering, faceting, sorting and geosearch. For AI retrieval it adds semantic search, hybrid search that blends keyword and vector results, multimodal search across images, video and audio, vector storage for similarity queries and RAG applications, and federated search across several data sources at once. Automated embeddings and search analytics are included. Official SDKs cover JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, .NET, Dart, Rust and Swift, along with front end libraries such as Instant Meilisearch and integrations for React, Vue, Angular and Rails.
It is used by engineering teams building product search for apps, ecommerce, media and enterprise sites, and by teams consolidating search and vector retrieval in one system.
Meilisearch Cloud starts at $20 per month and includes a 14 day free trial with no credit card required. Billing can be usage based or resource based. The usage based base plan is $30 per month for 100,000 documents and 50,000 searches, and resource based plans start at $23 per month for an XS instance. Enterprise plans are available, and self hosting the open source engine is free.