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    Meilisearch

    Meilisearch provides a powerful, fast, open-source search engine built in Rust, designed for developers to easily integrate high-quality search into any application.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    2Products
    7Tool Views
    9Capabilities
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    Paris, FranceHeadquarters
    2018Est.
    31Employees
    $27.2MRaised
    Focus Areas
    Vector Databases
    Database as a Service
    Database Tools
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    Latest News
    Meilisearch roadmap roundup: Serverless indexes targeting Q3 2026Mar 1, 2026
    Meilisearch launches SSO & SCIM for enterprise teamsJan 1, 2026
    Markets
    • SaaS
    • E-commerce
    • Media
    • Enterprise

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    Hybrid Vector and Text Search Engine

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    Latest News

    03/01/2026

    Meilisearch roadmap roundup: Serverless indexes targeting Q3 2026

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    01/01/2026

    Meilisearch launches SSO & SCIM for enterprise teams

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    10/01/2025

    Meilisearch 1.14 introduces composite embedders and embedding cache

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    12/01/2024

    Introducing Meilisearch's next-generation indexer: 4x faster updates

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    Products & Services

    2
    Meilisearch Open Source
    2020

    A powerful, fast, open-source search engine built in Rust, designed for developers to self-host.

    Meilisearch Cloud

    Fully managed search-as-a-service platform with global distribution and high reliability.

    Market Position

    Positions as a faster, developer-friendly, and more cost-effective alternative to Elasticsearch and Algolia for user-facing search.

    Leadership

    Founders

    QD

    Quentin de Quelen

    Co-founder & CEO of Meilisearch. Previously worked as an Apprentice Engineer at Apizee (2014-2015). Founded Meilisearch in 2018 with college friends.

    CR

    Clément Renault

    Co-founder & CTO of Meilisearch. Lead developer and architect of the search engine, built primarily in Rust. College friend of Quentin and Thomas.

    TP

    Thomas Payet

    Co-founder & COO of Meilisearch. Focuses on the business and operations side of the company. College friend of Quentin and Clément.

    Executive Team

    QD

    Quentin de Quelen

    Co-founder & CEO

    Leading the company since its inception in 2018.

    CR

    Clément Renault

    Co-founder & CTO

    Architect of the search engine and technical lead.

    Board of Directors

    VF
    Viviana Faga
    Board Member (General Partner at CRV)
    GR
    Guillermo Rauch
    Advisor (CEO of Vercel)

    Founding Story

    Founded in 2018 by three college friends (Quentin, Clément, and Thomas), Meilisearch began as an open-source project to build a better user-facing search engine in Rust without an initial commercial strategy.

    Business Model

    Revenue
    Estimated $2M - $3.6M ARR

    Revenue Model

    Freemium model with open-source core and paid managed SaaS (Meilisearch Cloud) subscriptions.

    Pricing Tiers

    Free
    $0

    Self-hosted open-source version.

    Build
    $30/month

    Managed cloud hosting for teams launching fast.

    Pro
    $300/month

    Advanced features and higher scale for growing businesses.

    Enterprise
    Custom

    Dedicated support, SSO, SCIM, and unlimited scale.

    Private

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • SaaS
    • E-commerce
    • Media
    • Enterprise
    Use Cases
    • E-commerce search
    • SaaS application search
    • Internal documentation search
    • Media search
    Notable Customers
    • Louis Vuitton
    • Agora
    • Vercel

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    Paris, France
    Founded
    2018
    Entity Type
    SAS
    Employees
    31
    Total Funding
    $27.2M
    Investors
    Felicis, CRV
    Office Locations
    Paris

    Funding History

    Series A$15M
    October 2022
    Felicis
    Seed$5M
    January 2022
    CRV
    Seed$1.7M
    August 2020
    Seedcamp
    LocalGlobe

    History & Milestones

    March 2026

    Announced roadmap for serverless indexes and hit a major product milestone.

    January 2022

    Raised $5M Seed round led by CRV.

    October 2022

    Raised $15M Series A round led by Felicis.

    2020

    Public launch of the open-source search engine.

    August 2020

    Raised $1.7M Seed round led by Seedcamp and LocalGlobe.

    Key Capabilities

    9
    Typo tolerance
    Relevancy tuning
    Faceting and filtering
    Geosearch
    Vector search
    Hybrid search

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • Laravel Scout
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Python
    • Node.js
    • Java
    • PHP
    • Go
    • Docker

    Key Partnerships

    Vercel
    Laravel (Official integration)

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