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Lightning-fast, open-source search engine — a developer-friendly Algolia alternative.

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Meilisearch is an open-source, lightning-fast search engine written in Rust. Designed as a developer-friendly alternative to Algolia with typo tolerance, faceted search, filtering, and sorting out of the box. Sub-50ms response times. Easy to deploy and configure with a RESTful API.

Meilisearch is a search engine built in Rust that prioritizes speed and developer experience. It provides instant, relevant search results with built-in typo tolerance, synonyms, stop words, and ranking customization — all configured through a simple RESTful API.

Key features include faceted search for filtering, multi-index search, geosearch, multi-tenancy, and built-in analytics. SDKs are available for JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, Swift, and Dart. The search-as-you-type experience typically returns results in under 50 milliseconds.

Meilisearch is open source under the MIT license. Self-hosting is completely free. Meilisearch Cloud offers managed hosting starting with a free tier (100K documents) and production plans from $30/month.

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Self-hosted free (MIT). Cloud free tier (100K docs). Cloud from $30/mo.

Platforms

Self-hosted on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes. Meilisearch Cloud managed. REST API.

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