Meilisearch

Free alternative to: Algolia

License: MIT (Community Edition)

Free terms: Community Edition is fully MIT and free including commercial use; a separate Enterprise Edition (sharding, S3-streaming snapshots) needs a commercial agreement for production.

What it does

Lightning-fast search engine API with typo-tolerant full-text, semantic, and hybrid search for sites and apps.

Heads-up: Two editions: Community Edition = fully MIT open source; Enterprise Edition = commercial license or BSL 1.1, not allowed in production without agreement. The directory entry covers the MIT Community Edition.

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The project lives with its maintainers — we don't distribute it and we can't provide support for it.

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Filed under: Free AI Agents & Automation Tools

Last verified: September 17, 2026 · Official source ↗

Heads-up: licenses and free tiers change. This page summarizes what the project's official source published on the verified date — confirm the details on the official page before you build on it. We never invent pricing or limits.

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