Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a developer tools tool for building and shipping software. In its own words: Build lightning-fast search and AI retrieval with Meilisearch. Open-source, developer-friendly search engine trusted by 20,000+ teams worldwide.

What the free plan gives you

Open source, free to self-host.

Because Meilisearch is open source, the ceiling is your own infrastructure rather than a billing page. Self-hosting costs nothing but your time, and a hosted plan is there if you would rather not run it.

What it does

Meilisearch covers lightning fast, plug-n-play, ultra relevant, apps & sites, full-text search.

When you would pay

You may never need to. The free tier is not a funnel step here, so the sensible move is to use it until something it genuinely cannot do forces the question.

We list Meilisearch because the free plan was checked against its own pricing page, not because a vendor asked. If it has changed, tell us and we will re-check it.