About Meilisearch
Meilisearch is a search engine for websites and apps. It is open source, and you can run it yourself or use the managed cloud service.
What it does
You send documents to Meilisearch, and it builds an index that answers search queries quickly enough for search-as-you-type. It supports full-text search, filters, facets and sorting. It can also add semantic search, so queries match meaning as well as keywords, and it can search across text, images and audio when those are indexed with AI embeddings.
Key features
- Typo-tolerant full-text search
- Filtering, faceting and sorting
- Semantic and hybrid search with AI embeddings
- Geosearch for location-based results
- Multimodal search across text, images and audio
- Self-host the engine or use Meilisearch Cloud
Who it's for
Developers adding search to a product catalog, a documentation site, a media library or an internal tool. It is a good fit for teams that want fast, relevant search with settings they can control.
Pricing and good to know
The engine is open source and free to self-host. Meilisearch Cloud runs it as a managed service, and the pricing page lists the plans. Self-hosting means you manage servers, storage and upgrades yourself, so weigh that effort against the managed option before you choose.
Highlights
- Typo-tolerant full-text search
- Filtering, faceting and sorting
- Semantic and hybrid search with AI embeddings
- Geosearch for location-based results
- Multimodal search across text, images and audio
- Self-host the engine or use Meilisearch Cloud
