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.
At a Glance
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Meilisearch
Hybrid Vector and Text Search Engine
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Latest News
Meilisearch roadmap roundup: Serverless indexes targeting Q3 2026
Meilisearch launches SSO & SCIM for enterprise teams
Meilisearch 1.14 introduces composite embedders and embedding cache
Introducing Meilisearch's next-generation indexer: 4x faster updates
Products & Services
A powerful, fast, open-source search engine built in Rust, designed for developers to self-host.
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
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.
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.
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
Quentin de Quelen
Co-founder & CEO
Leading the company since its inception in 2018.
Clément Renault
Co-founder & CTO
Architect of the search engine and technical lead.
Board of Directors
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 Model
Freemium model with open-source core and paid managed SaaS (Meilisearch Cloud) subscriptions.
Pricing Tiers
Self-hosted open-source version.
Managed cloud hosting for teams launching fast.
Advanced features and higher scale for growing businesses.
Dedicated support, SSO, SCIM, and unlimited scale.
Target Markets
- SaaS
- E-commerce
- Media
- Enterprise
- E-commerce search
- SaaS application search
- Internal documentation search
- Media search
- Louis Vuitton
- Agora
- Vercel