Meilisearch
Search sites and applications with Meilisearch, an API-based search engine offering hybrid search.
About Meilisearch
Meilisearch is an API-based search engine for adding search to websites and applications. Its core features include hybrid search, which combines semantic and full-text search, along with typo tolerance, filtering, faceted search, and sorting. The project also lists conversational search, personalization, and replication and sharding for scaling data across multiple nodes.
Meilisearch Cloud is a hosted option that removes the need for server deployment and manual updates. According to the homepage, it includes analytics and monitoring in many regions, without naming them, and no credit card is required. Pricing is not stated in the source.
Key features
- Hybrid search combining semantic and full-text search for relevant results
- Search-as-you-type with results displayed in under 50 milliseconds
- Typo tolerance for queries containing misspellings
- Filtering, faceted search, and sorting by fields such as price or date
- Geosearch for filtering and sorting documents by geographic data
- Conversational search that returns AI-generated answers grounded in search results
Best for: Developers who want to add fast, typo-tolerant search, with optional AI-powered hybrid search, to websites or applications.
Good for
- Offers optimized support for Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Latin-alphabet languages
- Provides a RESTful API and SDKs for integration into a technical stack
- Meilisearch Cloud removes the need for server deployment and manual updates
Meilisearch at a glance
- Category
- Development › APIs & Databases
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Meilisearch FAQ
Does Meilisearch Cloud require a credit card?
The homepage states that no credit card is required.
Which languages does Meilisearch support?
The source says it supports searching datasets in any language, with optimized support for Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and languages using the Latin alphabet.
Does Meilisearch support AI-based search?
Yes. The source lists hybrid search, conversational search with AI-generated answers, and compatibility with LangChain and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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