Data
Meilisearch Development
Fast, typo-tolerant search without the operational weight.
Meilisearch does the common ninety percent of search extremely well and asks almost nothing operationally. Typo tolerance, instant results as you type and sensible relevance are on by default rather than configuration exercises.
For most sites — a few hundred thousand documents, standard relevance needs — it delivers a better search experience than a poorly-tuned Elasticsearch cluster, at a fraction of the maintenance.
Why we use it
We use Meilisearch for site and catalogue search on most projects. Setup takes hours rather than weeks, and the defaults are good enough that tuning is usually unnecessary.
We move to Elasticsearch when the dataset is genuinely large, when heavy aggregation is needed, or when relevance has to be tuned to a specific commercial model. Below that, the extra machinery is cost without benefit.
Planning a Meilisearch project?
We will tell you honestly whether it is the right choice for what you are building.