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Meilisearch Has a Free Search Engine — Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search in Milliseconds

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An e-commerce developer needed product search. Elasticsearch required a DevOps team. Algolia charged per search request. They needed something in between.

Meilisearch is a free, open-source search engine. Sub-50ms responses, typo tolerance, faceted search - deploy in one command.

What Meilisearch Offers for Free

  • Instant Search - Results in under 50ms
  • Typo Tolerance - Finds results even with spelling mistakes
  • Faceted Search - Filter by category, price, brand, etc.
  • Multi-Language - 30+ languages with proper tokenization
  • Synonyms - Define word equivalents
  • Stop Words - Ignore common words
  • Geo Search - Filter by location radius
  • RESTful API - Simple HTTP endpoints

Quick Start 

docker run -p 7700:7700 getmeili/meilisearch
# Index documents
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:7700/indexes/products/documents' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '[{"id":1,"title":"iPhone 15","brand":"Apple"}]'
# Search
curl 'http://localhost:7700/indexes/products/search?q=iphne'  # typo-tolerant!
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GitHub: meilisearch/meilisearch - 48K+ stars

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