Meilisearch Alternatives

Meilisearch is described as 'Helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out-of-the-box to speed up your workflow' and is a Search Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Meilisearch for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Meilisearch alternative is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. Other great apps like Meilisearch are OpenSearch, Searchcraft, Typesense and Manticore search.

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  1. Algolia icon

    Algolia

     78 likes

    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    70 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    Comments about Algolia as an Alternative to Meilisearch
    Ayush Jangra
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    A fairly simple and lightweight integration with powerful AI features that we found easy to build into our customer application

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    • Almost everyone thinks Algolia is a great Meilisearch alternative.

    • Algolia is the most popular Web-based alternative to Meilisearch.

    • Algolia is the most popular free alternative to Meilisearch.

    • Algolia is Free Personal and ProprietaryMeilisearch is Paid and Open Source
  2. Elasticsearch icon

    Elasticsearch

     53 likes

    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    66 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Elasticsearch is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Meilisearch.

    • Elasticsearch is the most popular Open Source alternative to Meilisearch.

    • Elasticsearch is Freemium and Open SourceMeilisearch is Paid and Open Source
  4. Apache Solr icon

    Apache Solr

     26 likes

    Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
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  5. OpenSearch icon

    OpenSearch

     9 likes

    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  6. Searchcraft icon

    Searchcraft

     4 likes

    Searchcraft is a highly performant, content-optimized search engine written in Rust. It has lower resource footprint than Elasticsearch with faster response times. It aims to be faster, easier to implement, and easier to manage than Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Agolia and Solr...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  7. Typesense icon

    Typesense

     6 likes

    An open source, blazing fast, typo tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. Focuses on developer happiness and ease of use, with a painless out-of-the-box experience.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Manticore search icon

    Manticore search

     8 likes

    Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Sphinx (search engine) icon

    Sphinx (search engine)

     16 likes

    Sphinx is a software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format.

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    • Mac
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  11. Searchspring icon

    Searchspring

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    Searchspring provides solutions for online retailers such as site search, personalization, merchandising, and insights. It's compatible with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Miva.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Searchspring is the most popular commercial alternative to Meilisearch.

    • Searchspring is Paid and ProprietaryMeilisearch is Paid and Open Source
  12. Carrot2 icon

    Carrot2

     2 likes

    Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for.

    15 Carrot2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
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    Toshi

     1 like

    Toshi is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Google Custom Search

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    Adds a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google Search. It is useful in the ways that is free, but has quite bad crawlers for YOUR website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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