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Meilisearch

European Search Software

SearchOpen SourceEU region availableParis, FranceSince 2018freemium

Meilisearch is a European alternative to

Headquarters
Paris, France
Pricing
Free plan + paid
Data Residency
EU region available
Company Size
~50
About Meilisearch

French open source search engine. Typo-tolerant, fast, easy to use. Great Algolia alternative.

Meilisearch is a European alternative to Algolia, Elasticsearch. Pricing: Free self-hosted, cloud from $30/mo.

Meilisearch is headquartered in France, so it is bound by the GDPR. Customers can choose to have their data hosted in the EU.

Meilisearch at a glance

European headquarters

Headquartered in Paris, France, as stated in its own legal pages.

Data residency: EU region available

You can choose EU hosting for your data.

Bound by the GDPR

Its headquarters puts it under the GDPR, not under US law.

Open source

The source code is public, so you can inspect it.

How we check headquarters

Key Features
Instant search results (< 50ms)
Typo-tolerance out of the box
Built in Rust for performance
Security & compliance certifications

We haven't reviewed Meilisearch's certifications yet. This says nothing about whether Meilisearch holds any — only that we have not checked.

Pricing

Self-hosted

Free

Open source, unlimited

Cloud Build

Free

100k documents, 10k searches/mo

Cloud Pro

From $30/mo

1M documents, monitoring, analytics

Cloud Enterprise

Custom

Dedicated infrastructure, SLA

Visit Meilisearch for the latest pricing details.

Integrations
ReactVue.jsAngularLaravelRuby on RailsDjangoStrapiFirebaseSupabaseDocker
Company Info
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2018
Employees
~50
Funding
Raised $15M+, Series A
Product Specifications
Replaces
Algolia, Elasticsearch

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