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  "slug": "meilisearch",
  "name": "Meilisearch",
  "url": "https://www.meilisearch.com",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Open-source search engine + cloud",
  "price": "OSS free (MIT). Cloud: 14-day trial, no card. Usage-based from about $30/mo (100K documents, 50K searches) or resource-based from $23/mo for an XS instance (0.5 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 32GiB disk). Enterprise custom.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A Rust search engine with a REST API, tuned for instant search-as-you-type in under 50ms. The MIT-licensed Community Edition covers typo tolerance, filtering, faceting, geosearch, multi-tenancy and hybrid vector search. Meilisearch Cloud is the managed version with usage-based or fixed-instance billing.",
  "why": "The friendliest self-hosted option — one binary, sane defaults, and relevance that works without tuning. A drop-in Algolia replacement with fewer knobs and no per-request meter.",
  "warn": "Some newer capabilities ship in an <b>Enterprise Edition under BSL 1.1</b>, not MIT. Check the license before you build on a feature.",
  "install": "curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.meilisearch.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}