Lightning-fast open source search engine API with AI-powered hybrid search, typo tolerance, search-as-you-type, and a managed Meilisearch Cloud option.
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"Long story short: Meilisearch is a very good search application for sure, but our needs drifted apart. [...] Our usecase isn't entirely aligned with how Meilisearch is meant to be used, I think. For one, we have a very high number of indices [...] In the end I was ending up spending an inordinate amount of time wrangling Meilisearch to get indices up and running across our different edge nodes [...] the amount of effort needed to orchestrate and keep all the individual Meilisearch nodes up to date and in sync just turned out to be too much hassle."
| Project | License | Stars | Last release | Hosted | Docker | Zero terminal | Install path |
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| Meilisearch | MIT AND BUSL-1.1 | 58.9k | 2026-08-10 | Yes | Yes | No | Install path |