Meilisearch is a search engine with an API for websites and applications. It offers full-text, semantic and hybrid search, filtering, faceting and sorting, typo tolerance, vector storage for similarity queries and RAG, geosearch and search analytics, with search-as-you-type responses. Meilisearch is delivered as a managed service (Meilisearch Cloud) or as self-hosted software; the Community Edition is licensed under MIT and free to use, including commercially. The Enterprise Edition is covered by the Business Source License 1.1 and requires a commercial agreement for production use.
Meilisearch is developed by Meili SAS, a French company headquartered in Paris. Every Meilisearch Cloud project lives in a single region that you choose at creation. There are nine regions, including Paris and Frankfurt (EU), London, and locations in the US, Asia, Australia and Brazil. For Paris and Frankfurt, Meilisearch states that documents, indexes and backups stay in the EU. You can also run the Community Edition yourself with a European provider, on premises or in an air-gapped environment.