Meilisearch

Open-source search engine + cloud

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAGmeilisearch.com

What it is

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 it earns a slot

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.

Know before you commit

Some newer capabilities ship in an Enterprise Edition under BSL 1.1, not MIT. Check the license before you build on a feature.

Getting started

curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh

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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Evaluate Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Open-source search engine + cloud. 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.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): 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.
Watch out for: Some newer capabilities ship in an Enterprise Edition under BSL 1.1, not MIT. Check the license before you build on a feature.
Pricing: 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.
Setup: curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh
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Neighbourhood

How Meilisearch sits against the rest of the atlas — swaps, companions and the tools builders actually save alongside it.

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Named in the wiringAlgolia

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Algolia

algolia.com

Hosted keyword search API

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Free: 10K search requests/mo + 50K records. Grow: $0.50 per 1K searches + $0.40 per 1K records (10K searches / 100K records included). Grow Plus $1.75 per 1K searches. Elevate with NeuralSearch is custom.

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Brave Search API

brave.com

Independent web index search API

PaidSearch, vector & RAG

$5/month in free credits applied automatically; no standing free query allowance. Search $5 per 1K requests at 50 QPS. Answers $4 per 1K requests plus $5 per million input/output tokens at 2 QPS. Enterprise custom.

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Chroma

trychroma.com

Embedded vector DB + cloud

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

OSS free (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud Starter: $0/mo base with $5 free credits, then usage. Team $250/mo + usage with $100 credits. Rates: $2.50 per GiB written, $0.33 per GiB-month stored, $0.0075 per TiB queried, $0.09 per GiB returned.

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Cloudflare Vectorize

developers.cloudflare.com

Serverless vector DB on Workers

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Workers Free: 5M stored vector dimensions, 30M queried dimensions/mo. Workers Paid ($5/mo): 10M stored and 50M queried included, then $0.05 per 100M stored dimensions and $0.01 per million queried dimensions.

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