🆚 Meilisearch vs. Pagefind

Type

Site search software
Site search software

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 #23
Site Search › Rank #25
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #257

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

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

Market share

Site Search

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#8,769
#9,670
#10,505
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Name
Rank
#1,770
#9,856
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See also

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