Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a search engine written in Rust that developers embed in apps and websites. It handles full-text search with typo tolerance, faceting, synonyms, and geosearch, and adds vector and hybrid search using embeddings from external providers. It also has an experimental /chats endpoint for conversational search. That endpoint retrieves matching documents from your indexes and passes them to an LLM from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, or vLLM to produce grounded answers. The engine is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no usage limits. The managed Meilisearch Cloud is priced by instance size and metered hourly. In US East (N. Virginia), XS (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) is about $14.88 a month and XL (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) is about $259 a month. Disk storage and outbound bandwidth are charged on top, and there is no per-search fee or per-seat fee. Enterprise contracts are quoted by sales and add SAML SSO, SOC 2 Type II compliance, an SLA of up to 99.999%, sharding and replication, merchandising, personalization, and a dedicated Slack channel for support. SDKs cover more than 10 languages, and Docker or a single binary makes self-hosting simple. It suits startups and SaaS teams that want search like Algolia without Algolia's usage-based bills. The main limitations are that it needs developer skills, since there is no no-code builder, and that it is not built for log analytics or complex aggregations. Some users have also reported instability and resource limits on the Cloud service.