Meilisearch
Unified search and AI retrieval platform.
Meilisearch is a search engine platform that provides full-text, semantic, hybrid, and multimodal search with AI-powered retrieval. It is designed to be added to websites and applications to deliver fast, relevant results across private or public data, addressing the need for instant, typo-tolerant search without extensive configuration.
Key capabilities include typo tolerance, search-as-you-type, filtering, faceting, sorting, geosearch, vector storage for similarity queries and RAG, federated search across multiple data sources, and search analytics. It supports official SDKs for JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Swift, and Dart, along with integrations for Laravel Scout, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Strapi, Firebase, React, Vue, Angular, Docker, Kubernetes, and an MCP server for AI assistants.
Meilisearch is available as a fully managed cloud service or as a self-hosted open source engine. The cloud offering includes a 14-day free trial with usage-based or resource-based billing, while an Enterprise edition provides custom infrastructure, dedicated support, SSO SAML, SOC 2 compliance, and advanced analytics. Self-hosting is free but requires managing updates, backups, and scaling.
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