About meilisearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
Meilisearch is a cutting-edge, open-source search engine API built in Rust, designed to deliver lightning-fast, AI-powered hybrid search capabilities for modern websites and applications. It uniquely combines traditional keyword search with advanced vector-based semantic search, enabling users to find relevant results through both exact matches and contextual understanding. With features like typo tolerance, faceting, geosearch, and real-time search-as-you-type, it provides an intuitive and powerful search experience. Being free, open-source, and GitHub-hosted, it offers enterprise-grade performance without the cost, making it ideal for developers seeking scalable, customizable search solutions. Its hybrid approach ensures high relevance and speed, setting it apart from conventional search engines.
Common Use Cases
- Enhance e-commerce platforms with fast, typo-tolerant product searches and faceted filtering.
- Power internal enterprise search systems for quick document retrieval across large databases.
- Implement intelligent site search on blogs or news sites using semantic understanding.
- Build real-time search experiences in mobile apps with geosearch and instant results.
- Create AI-driven recommendation engines by leveraging vector search for content similarity.
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Key Features
- Rust
- Open Source
- GitHub Hosted
How to Get Started
Usage Statistics
Active Users
56,929
API Calls
2,481,000
Additional Information
Category
Generative AI
Pricing
Free
Last Updated
4/3/2026
