Meilisearch is a lightning-fast, open-source full-text search engine written in Rust. It provides a developer-friendly REST API that delivers instant, typo-tolerant search with features like faceted filtering, synonyms and geo-search — making it a popular choice for adding site and app search to modern projects without running complex infrastructure.

Key Features

• Typo tolerance — Understands misspelled queries and still returns relevant results
• Search as you type — Sub-50ms responses for an instant autocomplete experience
• Developer-friendly API — Simple REST endpoints and minimal setup to integrate in minutes
• Faceted search — Filter and refine results by category, brand, price and more
• Synonyms & stop words — Configure custom linguistic handling per dataset
• Geo-search — Filter results by physical distance for location-aware apps

Why Use Meilisearch?

Meilisearch is famous for its simplicity: you can have a searchable index up in minutes with a REST API and official SDKs for most languages. Its typo tolerance means users find results even when they cannot spell, and it scales comfortably from small sites to large e-commerce datasets.

Use Cases

• E-commerce product and filterable catalogue search
• Documentation and knowledge-base site search
• Real-time autocomplete and search-as-you-type fields
• Mobile and web app search over large collections

Platform

Linux · macOS · Windows · Docker · Kubernetes

Licence

MIT

Website

meilisearch.com