What is MeiliSearch?

Efficient search engines often require a significant investment of resources. They are only accessible to companies with the means necessary to develop a bespoke search solution that fits their needs.

Small-to-medium-sized businesses commonly resort to subpar search engines that incur invisible costs on their user experience and retention due to poor search fulfillment.

That’s why we created MeiliSearch: An open source solution accessible to everyone, designed to meet a vast majority of needs. Requiring very little configuration to be installed, yet highly customizable.

Meilisearch helps the Rust community find crates on crates.meilisearch.com (opens new window)

Features

• Blazing fast (answers < 50 milliseconds): Priority is given to fast answers for a smooth search experience.
• Search as you type: Results are updated on each keystroke. To make this possible, we use .
• Typo tolerance: Understands typoes and misspellings.
• in English, Chinese, and all languages that uses space as a word divider.
• Return the whole document: The entire document is returned upon search.
• RESTful API

MeiliSearch is committed to providing open source, easy to use, customizable instant search that focuses on the needs of end-users.

SDKs and integrations

Our team and community have worked hard to bring MeiliSearch to almost all popular web development languages, frameworks, and deployment options—and new integrations are constantly in development. Check out .

Why should you use MeiliSearch instead of any other existing solution? We try to answer this question in this comparison to alternatives. In short, MeiliSearch most closely compares with Algolia. MeiliSearch stands out by being open source (while commercial), and aims to be simpler to deploy and maintain than other competitors.

Give it a try!

Instead of showing you examples, why not just invite you to test MeiliSearch interactively in the out-of-the-box web interface we deliver?