Meilisearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Our verdict
A usable project with some maintenance caveats. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications. The project is written primarily in Rust, published without a recognised SPDX licence, and has 59,077 stars and 2,681 forks on GitHub. 256 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-14. The latest tagged release is v1.53.1 (2026-08-13). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- Not declared
- Language
- Rust
- Last push
- 2026-08-14
Releases
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v1.53.1🖇️ v1.53.1 -
v1.53.0🖇️ v1.53.0 -
v1.52.3v1.52.3 🐠 -
v1.52.2v1.52.2 🐠 -
v1.52.1v1.52.1 🐠 -
v1.52.0v1.52.0 🐠
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceNot declared
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNo, quote-based
Meilisearch does not publish a price list openly, which usually means pricing is quote-based. You will need to contact them. Why we do this
Visit www.meilisearch.comChangelog
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User reviews
No one has reviewed this tool here yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear, and our own score is editorial and separate from user ratings.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meilisearch this page | 6.6 | — | Yes | ||
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Questions
Is Meilisearch free?
Yes. Meilisearch advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does Meilisearch cost?
Meilisearch does not publish pricing openly, which usually means it is quote-based. You will need to contact the vendor.
Is Meilisearch open source?
Yes. Meilisearch is a public repository released under Not declared. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is Meilisearch scored here?
Meilisearch scores 6.6 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.