meilisearch/meilisearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 5.0
- age_days: 3054
- days_rel: 20
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 91
Adoption not part of the score
59101 stars · 2684 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Meilisearch is a fast, open-source search engine that provides typo-tolerant full-text search, semantic and hybrid AI-powered search, and vector storage through a single REST API. It is self-hostable (with a paid cloud offering) and ships with SDKs for many languages plus an MCP server for LLM integration.
Use cases
- add instant search-as-you-type to my website
- typo-tolerant product search for an e-commerce store
- semantic or hybrid search over my documents
- store vectors and do similarity search for RAG
- self-hosted Algolia alternative
- faceted filtering and geosearch for listings
- ground an LLM chatbot in my own content
- search across documentation or internal knowledge
When to choose
- you need sub-50ms, out-of-the-box relevant search with minimal configuration
- you want typo tolerance, faceting, and geosearch without tuning a ranking engine
- you want to combine keyword and vector/semantic search in one API
- you want a self-hosted search engine with SDKs for most languages
When to avoid
- you need complex custom relevance scoring or deep query DSL like Elasticsearch
- you need a distributed, horizontally scalable search cluster for very large datasets
- you need heavy analytics or log ingestion workloads rather than app search
- you require a permissive license for enterprise redistribution (license is not standard MIT at repo level)
Facets
service · maturity stable
search-engine vector-database http-server rag mcp databases web-development artificial-intelligence e-commerce self-hosted cloud rust full-text-search typo-tolerance semantic-search hybrid-search search-as-you-type geosearch faceting instantsearch embeddings site-search search retrieval-augmented-generation docker kubernetes web-server
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9f3b2bfe27cf
- homepage: https://www.meilisearch.com · fetched 2026-08-28 · cfecceb47437
- site_page: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-28 · fda18c7a3877
- site_page: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/what_is_meilisearch/sdks · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9d8fcc3ae61f
- site_page: https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-28 · ef721b689396
- site_page: https://www.meilisearch.com/products/fulltext-search · fetched 2026-08-28 · 06f20e270ec0
- site_page: https://www.meilisearch.com/integrations · fetched 2026-08-28 · 16993471e947
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| meilisearch/meilisearch | main | 94 |
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