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. Toshi icon
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    Toshi is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Carrot2 icon
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    Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
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  3. ZIR AI allows application developers to add sophisticated ML-powered text search to their applications and platforms. It provides high performance gRPC APIs for indexing and running queries, encryption in transit and rest, and an OAuth 2.0 security model.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Viglet Turing icon
     2 likes

    Open-source, self-hosted enterprise search platform combining production search engine, semantic RAG pipeline with citations, agent framework, and generative AI. Features hybrid BM25 and vector search, broad content connectors, full privacy, and on-premises deployment.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  5. ParadeDB icon
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    ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
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  6. Appbase.io provides a supercharged Elasticsearch experience with a #nocode relevance control plane (or JS UI components or a declarative REST API) and out-of-the-box search/click analytics and insights.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2020

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • elasticsearch
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Anvere icon
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    ANVERE gives your users a smart search experience that returns meaningful results within split-milliseconds. No config, no fine-tuning needed .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Chili Search replaces the WordPress default search with a lightning fast, full-ajax and accurate search.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • HTML
    • Wordpress
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  9. Zevi.AI icon
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    Zevi is a site search engine that is build with NLP and AI at its core. With Zevi a customer can easily pass through your website and give back ranked results based on the businesses preference. Zevi makes site Information discovery a breeze.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Open-source neural search framework for text, images, audio, or video. Leverages pre-trained neural network algorithms to index and query data without need for complex rules and fragile pipelines.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Magifind icon
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    Magifind uses advanced AI and natural language processing to truly understand the intent behind a customer's search, not just match keywords. This semantic search approach allows Magifind to return highly relevant results, guiding customers to the exact products they are...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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