🆚 Meilisearch vs. Pagefind

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Site search software solution
Site search software solution

About

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.

Pagefind is a fully static JavaScript search library that aims to perform well on large sites while using as little bandwidth as possible.

Headquarters

Paris, France
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Self-managed, open source
Cloud
Build
(100K documents, 50K searches)
$30+/month
Pro
(1M documents, 250K searches)
$300+/month
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Site Search › Rank #25
Site Search › Rank #24
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #258

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pagefind site search software solution is 1.4 times more popular than Meilisearch.
Total websites

Market share

Site Search

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pagefind is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while Meilisearch is more popular in Portugal, France, and Italy.
United States
Germany
Portugal
France
Italy
Belgium
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Spain
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pagefind is more popular among sites focused on business, software and hardware, and technical information, while Meilisearch is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical Information
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Health
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#8,769
#22,553
#28,890
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Name
Rank
#1,770
#9,856
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See also

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