Meilisearch

Meilisearch is an open source, lightning-fast search engine API that brings AI-powered hybrid search to sites and applications. It provides a RESTful API for indexing, searching, and managing documents, with SDKs available for all major languages and frameworks.

Meilisearch publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Documents API, Health API, Indexes API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include AI Search, Full-Text Search, Hybrid Search, Open Source, and Search.

Meilisearch’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, changelog, and 9 more developer resources.

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50.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

8 APIs 1 MCP Servers 16 Features

AI SearchFull-Text SearchHybrid SearchOpen SourceSearch

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 50.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Meilisearch Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Meilisearch Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Open Source: free self-hosted

Cloud Usage-Based from $30/mo: pay per search + documents

Cloud Resource-Based from $23/mo: pay by CPU/RAM/storage

Enterprise: custom self-hosting + premier support

Typo-tolerant full-text search

Vector search for semantic + RAG use cases

Faceted search and filtering

Multi-tenancy via tenant tokens

Federated search across multiple indexes

REST API with master and tenant keys

Concurrent indexing tasks: 4 default

Embedders integration (OpenAI, HuggingFace, etc.)

Synonyms, stop words, ranking rules

InstantSearch UI libraries (JS, React, Vue)

Webhooks via task notifications

EU + US data residency

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AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: meilisearch
name: Meilisearch
description: Meilisearch is an open source, lightning-fast search engine API that brings AI-powered hybrid search to sites
  and applications. It provides a RESTful API for indexing, searching, and managing documents, with SDKs available for all
  major languages and frameworks.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/meilisearch.png
tags:
- AI Search
- Full-Text Search
- Hybrid Search
- Open Source
- Search
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meilisearch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-02-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-api
  name: Meilisearch API
  description: The Meilisearch RESTful API provides endpoints for creating and managing indexes, adding and searching documents,
    configuring search settings, managing API keys, and monitoring tasks and health status.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Documents
  - Indexing
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/reference/api/overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/getting_started/installation
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/security/basic_security
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/what_is_meilisearch/sdks
  - url: graphql/meilisearch-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-documents-api
  name: Meilisearch Documents API
  description: The Documents API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-documents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-health-api
  name: Meilisearch Health API
  description: The Health API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for health.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-health-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-indexes-api
  name: Meilisearch Indexes API
  description: The Indexes API from Meilisearch — 4 operation(s) for indexes.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Indexes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-indexes-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-keys-api
  name: Meilisearch Keys API
  description: The Keys API from Meilisearch — 2 operation(s) for keys.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-keys-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-search-api
  name: Meilisearch Search API
  description: The Search API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-search-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-settings-api
  name: Meilisearch Settings API
  description: The Settings API from Meilisearch — 1 operation(s) for settings.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-settings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: meilisearch:meilisearch-tasks-api
  name: Meilisearch Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Meilisearch — 4 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
  baseURL: https://localhost:7700
  tags:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-tasks-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/meilisearch-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/meilisearch-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/meilisearch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/meilisearch-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/meilisearch-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meilisearch
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/meilisearch
- type: Community
  url: https://discord.gg/meilisearch
- type: Signup
  url: https://cloud.meilisearch.com/register
- type: Login
  url: https://cloud.meilisearch.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases
- type: Features
  data:
  - 'Open Source: free self-hosted'
  - 'Cloud Usage-Based from $30/mo: pay per search + documents'
  - 'Cloud Resource-Based from $23/mo: pay by CPU/RAM/storage'
  - 'Enterprise: custom self-hosting + premier support'
  - Typo-tolerant full-text search
  - Vector search for semantic + RAG use cases
  - Faceted search and filtering
  - Multi-tenancy via tenant tokens
  - Federated search across multiple indexes
  - REST API with master and tenant keys
  - 'Concurrent indexing tasks: 4 default'
  - Embedders integration (OpenAI, HuggingFace, etc.)
  - Synonyms, stop words, ranking rules
  - InstantSearch UI libraries (JS, React, Vue)
  - Webhooks via task notifications
  - EU + US data residency
  sources:
  - https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing
  updated: '2026-05-04'
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/integrations
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch-mcp
  type: MCPServer
integrations:
- name: Meilisearch's
- name: Background gradient and figure
- name: line
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com