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An open-source alternative to Algolia

Meilisearch is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Algolia. It is search & retrieval software with 59.7K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Meilisearch

Search & retrieval

Fast, typo-tolerant search for your website or app.

Meilisearch is a search engine designed to drop into websites and apps without a dedicated search team. It is fast enough for search-as-you-type, forgiving of typos, and flexible enough for faceted product search or semantic search.

  • Return relevant results as users type, in under 50 milliseconds.
  • Combine full-text and semantic search, with typo tolerance and synonyms.
  • Build filters, facets and sorting for a product catalogue in a few lines of code.

What people use it for

Add instant search to an online store

Index the product catalogue and let shoppers search as they type, with filters and facets for category or brand and sorting by price or date.

Search a documentation or content site

Index articles or docs so readers find the right page even when they misspell a term, with synonyms for the words your audience actually uses.

Power semantic search

Combine semantic and full-text matching in hybrid search to return results that match meaning as well as keywords.

59.7K starsMITRustLatest release 5 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Meilisearch.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 26, 2026 (5 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in RustMain language on GitHub
  • Recommended in a stackIn E-commerce brand

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