Meilisearch Has a Free Search Engine — Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search for Your App

Meilisearch is an open-source, lightning-fast search engine — deploy full-text search in minutes, not weeks.

What You Get for Free

• Typo tolerance — finds results even with misspellings
• Instant search — results in <50ms, even with millions of documents
• Faceted search — filter by category, price, date
• Geo search — search by location and distance
• Multi-language — supports Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and more
• Synonyms — configure "laptop" = "notebook"
• RESTful API — simple HTTP endpoints, any language
• SDKs — JS, Python, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Java, Swift
• Dashboard — built-in web UI for testing queries

Quick Start

curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh
./meilisearch --master-key="YOUR_KEY"

# Index documents
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:7700/indexes/products/documents' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-binary @products.json

# Search
curl 'http://localhost:7700/indexes/products/search?q=laptop'

Why Developers Switch from Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is complex, resource-hungry, and Java-based:

• 10x simpler — no JVM, no cluster config, single binary
• Faster — sub-50ms search on 10M+ documents
• Lower RAM — 100MB vs Elasticsearch's 2GB+ minimum
• Better DX — RESTful API, not complex query DSL

A SaaS product spent 2 weeks setting up Elasticsearch for 50K products. They switched to Meilisearch — setup took 30 minutes, search is 3x faster, server costs dropped 70%.

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