Meilisearch Alternatives

Apps similar to Meilisearch include Algolia, which is free for personal use. Other options are Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, OpenSearch and Searchcraft. You're spoiled for choice with Search Servers like Meilisearch: we list more than 25 alternatives for the web, self-hosting, Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Algolia icon
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    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. Elasticsearch icon
     55 likes

    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    71 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Apache Solr icon
     27 likes

    Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling.

    51 Apache Solr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
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  4. OpenSearch icon
     11 likes

    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    40 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  5. Searchcraft icon
     4 likes

    Searchcraft is a highly performant, content-optimized search engine written in Rust. It has lower resource footprint than Elasticsearch with faster response times. It aims to be faster, easier to implement, and easier to manage than Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Agolia and Solr...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  6. Typesense icon
     6 likes

    An open source, blazing fast, typo tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. Focuses on developer happiness and ease of use, with a painless out-of-the-box experience.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2018

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Pagefind icon
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    Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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  8. Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Ad-free and private site search.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Qdrant icon
     3 likes

    Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload Qdrant is tailored to extended filtering support.

    63 Qdrant alternatives

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  11. Searchspring icon
     1 like

    Searchspring provides solutions for online retailers such as site search, personalization, merchandising, and insights. It's compatible with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Miva.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2007

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Sphinx is a software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format.

    46 Sphinx (search engine) alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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