🆚 Elasticsearch vs. Meilisearch

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Elasticsearch
Meilisearch

Type

Site search software solution
Site search software solution

About

Elasticsearch is an open-source, distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built on Apache Lucene.

Meilisearch is an open-source AI-powered hybrid search engine for applications and websites that combines keyword-based and vector-based search to retrieve results using both lexical matching and semantic similarity.

It provides a REST API and client libraries for multiple programming languages, supports full-text search with typo tolerance, synonyms, faceted filtering, customizable sorting, and vector embeddings for semantic search.

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paris, France

Website

elastic.co #24,958
meilisearch.com #236,142

Pricing

Free version ✔️Self-managed, open source
Elastic Cloud Hosted
Standard$99+/month
Gold$114+/month
Platinum$131+/month
Enterprise$184+/month
Free version ✔️Self-managed, open source
Cloud
Build
(100K documents, 50K searches)$30+/month
Pro
(1M documents, 250K searches)$300+/month

Categories

Site Search › Rank #4
Site Search › Rank #25

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Elasticsearch software solution is 25 times more popular than Meilisearch.
Total websites

Market share

Site Search

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Elasticsearch is more popular in the United States, France, and Taiwan, while Meilisearch is more popular in Portugal.
United States
France
Taiwan
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Australia
Norway
Turkey
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Elasticsearch is more popular than Meilisearch in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Health
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#19
#66
#101
#117
#140
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Name
Rank
#1,095
#8,336
#8,769
#22,553
#28,890
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See also

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