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.