At a glance
- Meilisearch is listed under Site search, alongside AddSearch, Algolia and Athos Commerce.
- Meilisearch's lowest paid plan is Cloud at $20 per month, fixed by instance size, as of November 13, 2026.
- Meilisearch's pricing model: fixed monthly price by instance size.
- Meilisearch offers a free trial (14 days).
- Meilisearch works with Strapi, Firebase, Laravel and Ruby on Rails.
- Meilisearch's main features: Full-text search, Hybrid search, Semantic search, Multimodal search, Federated search, Search analytics.
- Meilisearch's website lists SOC 2, GDPR and SSO.
- Meilisearch has a public API.
- Meilisearch can be self-hosted.
- We haven't confirmed whether Meilisearch has a free plan.
Facts from meilisearch.com, checked November 13, 2026.
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