Fast, developer-friendly open-source search engine and AI retrieval platform offering full-text, semantic, and hybrid search.
What it does
Meilisearch is a developer-focused search and AI retrieval platform built around a fast, open-source search engine. It returns search-as-you-type results in under 50 milliseconds with out-of-the-box relevancy, and supports full-text, semantic, hybrid, multimodal, and federated search plus vector storage for RAG. It can be self-hosted or run as a fully managed cloud service, with features like faceting, geosearch, and search analytics.
How to use: Meilisearch seamlessly integrates into apps and workflows. Smart presets allow users to start searching through data with zero configuration. It offers a self-explanatory API and SDKs for various languages.
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