Meilisearch: Unified Search & AI Retrieval Platform

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

🚀 Overview

Meilisearch is a flexible, powerful, open-source search engine designed for developers to integrate fast and relevant search into any website or app. It unifies full-text, semantic, hybrid, and multi-modal search with out-of-the-box relevancy and performance under 50ms.

It addresses the challenges of building high-quality search experiences without complex setup, offering plug-and-play deployment and advanced features like vector storage for AI apps.

Meilisearch was created to empower developers and businesses with a user-focused alternative to cumbersome search solutions, prioritizing speed, ease, and customization.

Answer these questions:

What problem does this project solve? Delivering lightning-fast, ultra-relevant search across text, vectors, images, and more, solving poor search UX in apps.
Who is it built for? Developers, e-commerce teams, media platforms, and enterprises.
Why did you build it? To simplify search integration with instant relevancy and minimal config, speeding up development.

✨ Key Features

Lightning-fast search-as-you-type (<50ms) with typo tolerance and smart presets.
Hybrid search: full-text + semantic for deeper query understanding.
Filtering, faceting, sorting, geosearch, and multi-modal (images/videos/audio).
Vector storage/retrieval for RAG/AI apps, federated search, analytics.
Optional: Roadmap features like enhanced personalization and integrations.