Meilisearch

What Meilisearch is

Meilisearch is the search layer you add to your own product. It provides fast full-text search, semantic and hybrid retrieval and AI-oriented retrieval features, available either as open-source software you run or as a hosted service.

What you can do with it

• Add typo-tolerant search to an app
• Combine keyword and semantic retrieval
• Serve search for sites and documentation
• Tune relevance for your data
• Choose between self-hosting and cloud

Who it is for

• Developers and product teams
• Data application teams
• SaaS engineers replacing query layers

What to watch out for

• Result quality depends on your data structure, indexing strategy and relevance settings, which need designing before launch
• Index permissions must be enforced, or search becomes a way around access controls
• Self-hosting means upgrades, backups and scaling are yours
• Cloud plans scale with records and queries, so model the cost