Meilisearch

Lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search engine.

Paris, France · Founded 2018 · Freemium
A European alternative to Datadog Perplexity AI You.com

About Meilisearch

Meilisearch is an open-source search engine built in Rust by Meili, a French company headquartered in central Paris. It provides typo-tolerant full-text search with optional semantic and hybrid search, instant relevance tuning, faceting, filtering and language-aware ranking, exposed via simple REST APIs and SDKs. Developers can self-host the engine for free or use Meilisearch Cloud, which has a free tier and paid plans plus a 14-day trial. The company has raised a $15M Series A led by Felicis with participation from CRV, Seedcamp and Vercel's Guillermo Rauch.

Quick facts

Pricing model Freemium
Free trial
Open source Yes
Self-hostable Yes
Public API Yes
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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