Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a search engine designed to be added to any website or application. The page describes it as a flexible, user-focused search engine offering search-as-you-type results in under 50 milliseconds, quick deployment with smart presets and zero configuration, and out-of-the-box relevancy. It supports full-text, semantic, hybrid, and multimodal search, along with filtering, faceting, sorting, vector storage, federated search, geosearch, and search analytics. The page states it is available on Meilisearch Cloud or as a self-hosted open source engine, provides SDKs and integrations for many languages and frameworks, and lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance. It also claims trust by 20,000+ teams and references a CarbonGraph customer migration from Pinecone.

Key features

• Full-text search
• Semantic search
• Hybrid search
• Multimodal search across images, video, and audio with AI-powered embeddings
• Filtering, faceting and sorting
• Vector storage for similarity queries or RAG applications
• Federated search across multiple data sources
• Search analytics
• Geosearch
• Search-as-you-type with responses in under 50 milliseconds
• Smart presets for zero-configuration setup
• Automated embeddings
• Open source engine and Meilisearch Cloud hosting
• SDKs and integrations for multiple languages and frameworks

Best suited for

• Adding search to websites and applications
• E-commerce product search
• Media search
• Enterprise search across private or public data
• Knowledge base search
• Site search and app search
• RAG and AI retrieval applications

Pricing

Not stated on the website