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 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Documents API, Health API, Indexes API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include AI Search, Full-Text Search, Hybrid Search, Open Source, and Search.

The Meilisearch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Meilisearch’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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52.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 16 Features

AI Search Full-Text Search Hybrid Search Open Source Search

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 52.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 15

Access Clarity 9.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.4 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 47.4 — up to +13.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 15.2 — up to +10.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Search API (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch shape)	builds-on	51.7	-	1
APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory (API definition directory)	builds-on	51.7	-	1
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	builds-on	51.7	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

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

Meilisearch API

The Meilisearch RESTful API provides endpoints for creating and managing indexes, adding and searching documents, configuring search settings, managing API keys, and monitoring ...

Meilisearch Documents API

The Documents API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for documents.

Meilisearch Health API

The Health API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for health.

Meilisearch Indexes API

The Indexes API from Meilisearch — 4 operation(s) for indexes.

Meilisearch Keys API

The Keys API from Meilisearch — 2 operation(s) for keys.

Meilisearch Search API

The Search API from Meilisearch — 3 operation(s) for search.

Meilisearch Settings API

The Settings API from Meilisearch — 1 operation(s) for settings.

Meilisearch Tasks API

The Tasks API from Meilisearch — 4 operation(s) for tasks.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Meilisearch Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Indexes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Keys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Settings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch Documents Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Meilisearch API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

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

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Meilisearch API pricing

Prices published by Meilisearch, read 2026-10-28 from www.meilisearch.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Cloud	Starting at $20/month Includes: 14-day free trial, usage-based or resource-based billing, fully managed Cloud infrastructure, email
Enterprise	Custom Includes: Custom infra, up to 99.999% uptime SLA, dedicated Slack support, SSO SAML, SOC 2
Usage-based (estimator example)	$30/month Includes: Base plan (100K docs, 50K searches)
Resource-based (estimator example)	$23/month Includes: XS instance (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) $18/mo + Disk $5/mo

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Search API: scales with resource queries per second
Indexing API: varies by request size documents per request
Concurrent indexing tasks: 4 concurrent

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Meilisearch's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Meilisearch Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Meilisearch Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Meilisearch Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Meilisearch

SLA

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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Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Meilisearch — meilisearch rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Meilisearch Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Meilisearch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Meilisearch Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Meilisearch Trust Center

GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Meilisearch Agentic Access

33 operations · 17 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

33 operations · 17 acting

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

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Community

Community

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
tags_raw:
- AI Search
- Full-Text Search
- Hybrid Search
- Open Source
- Search
- Open-Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meilisearch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-02-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
- 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:
  - Index
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/meilisearch-tasks-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/meilisearch-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/meilisearch-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/meilisearch-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.meilisearch.com/
- 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
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/blob/9d3365c81607e17ec9df1473f97d5dc9109bb1c4/crates/openapi-generator/.spectral.yaml
integrations:
- name: Meilisearch's
- name: Background gradient and figure
- name: line
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Meilisearch API — frequently asked questions

Does Meilisearch have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Meilisearch, including Meilisearch API, Meilisearch Documents API and Meilisearch Health API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Meilisearch API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Meilisearch, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Meilisearch API?

Meilisearch uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Meilisearch Authentication.

How much does the Meilisearch API cost?

Meilisearch publishes its prices; its Cloud plan is Starting at $20/month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Meilisearch, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Meilisearch have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Meilisearch.

Is the Meilisearch API ready for AI agents?

Meilisearch has a Kin Score of 52.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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