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meilisearch

An open-source, fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that fits effortlessly into your projects.

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An open-source, fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that fits effortlessly into your projects.

Platform availability

Available on 4 of 9 platforms

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

88/100 Excellent

Maintained
100last commit 7 days ago
Popular
9559,504 GitHub stars
Easy to install
654 install platforms, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
602 GB minimum RAM, runs on ARM
Security check
100no serious findings, CI, tests

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 14 days ago

GitHub stars
59,504
Open issues
321
Last commit
2026-10-06
Latest release
v1.54.3
Activity
steady

Checked 7 days ago - source: GitHub (meilisearch/meilisearch)

Resources & Compatibility

Minimum requirements: 2 GB RAM. ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 14 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Open port 7700 and keep your data If you’re using the example Docker command, open port 7700 (the port apps use to talk to Meilisearch) and bind a folder to /meili_data. Without that folder, your search index and settings can disappear when the container is removed. source

Fetched 14 days ago - each note links to its source

Alternatives (5)

  • Algolia - Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, perso…
  • Apache Solr
  • Elasticsearch - Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that indexes and queries full-text, log, metric, and vector data in near real ti…
  • Manticore search - Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx se…
  • Sphinx (search engine)

Checked 11 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

What Docker setup is needed to expose and persist Meilisearch data?

Open port 7700 so apps can talk to Meilisearch and bind a host folder to /meili_data. If that folder is not bound, your search index and settings can disappear when the container is removed.

How much disk and memory did one self-hoster report using?

For 600k records, it used a lot of disk space while memory usage was incredibly low because it is disk-backed.

Can Meilisearch prioritize or weight fields in results?

No, one self-hoster reported that you cannot prioritize or weight fields.

Answers sourced from github.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 2 days ago - public community threads