# Elasticsearch vs Meilisearch

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Elasticsearch

| Attribute | Elasticsearch | Meilisearch |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 73 (58% (medium)) | 65.2 (67% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 17 |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,195 | 59,573 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elasticsearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Gold, Platinum and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"How much does Elasticsearch cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elasticsearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elasticsearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elasticsearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 32 integrations for Elasticsearch, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and GitHub, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elasticsearch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elasticsearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elasticsearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elasticsearch have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elasticsearch available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source search engine built for speed and relevance, providing full-text search, semantic understanding through AI embeddings, and hybrid retrieval that integrates easily into websites and applications with sub-50-millisecond response times. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","question":"What is Meilisearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Meilisearch offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $30 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","question":"Is Meilisearch free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Meilisearch supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","question":"What platforms does Meilisearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Meilisearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","question":"Can Meilisearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Meilisearch, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust and .NET, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","question":"What does Meilisearch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Meilisearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Meilisearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.meilisearch.com","question":"What security certifications does Meilisearch have?","confidence":0.48}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs. | A cloud-hosted and self-hosted search engine that combines full-text and semantic search. It's designed for rapid integration with zero configuration required and includes features like faceting, geosearch, and vector storage. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"ES|QL","data_model":"document","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","replication":true,"sql_support":true,"index_engine":"lucene","licence_class":"source_available","log_analytics":true,"managed_cloud":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","full_text_search":true,"relevance_tuning":"ltr","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","horizontal_scaling":true}` | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"JSON (HTTP API)","deployment":"managed","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","relevance_tuning":"ranking_rules"}` |
| integrations.count | 350 | 23 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"NVIDIA AI"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Sarvam AI"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"LlamaParse"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"NVIDIA","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Auth0","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LlamaIndex","category":"ai"},{"name":"Red Hat","category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx","category":"ai"},{"name":"Cohere","category":"ai"},{"name":"LangChain","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"}]` | `[{"name":"JavaScript"},{"name":"TypeScript"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"PHP"},{"name":"Ruby"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Rust"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":".NET"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"Dart"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Rails"},{"name":"Symfony"},{"name":"Strapi"},{"name":"Firebase"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Vue"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"meilisync"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"JavaScript SDK"},{"name":"Python SDK"},{"name":"PHP SDK"},{"name":"Ruby SDK"},{"name":"Go SDK"},{"name":"Rust SDK"},{"name":"Java SDK"},{"name":".NET SDK"},{"name":"Swift SDK"},{"name":"Dart SDK"},{"name":"Laravel Scout"},{"name":"Ruby on Rails"},{"name":"InstantSearch"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Rust |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$99/month","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP","ES|QL query language and APIs","Default monitoring and AutoOps","Alerting with detection engine","Malware prevention","Cloud security posture management","APM, logging, metrics","Synthetic monitoring (limited)","Universal Profiling","LLM observability","Limited support (3-business day response)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Entry-level plan with distributed Elasticsearch across cloud providers, API access, monitoring, security alerts, and observability basics.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"$114/month","features":["All Standard features","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Multi-stack monitoring","Enterprise Search","External detection notifications","Base support (business hours, 1-day response for high)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Standard features plus reporting, enterprise search, advanced security, and base support with business hours availability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"$131/month with SLA","features":["All Gold features","Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)","Vector search with ELSER and e5 models","Cross-cluster replication","Log categorization","Service maps, tail-based sampling","APM correlations","ML-powered SIEM rules","Enhanced support (24/7, 1-hour urgent response)","99.95% uptime SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Gold features plus machine learning, advanced security, vector search with ML models, semantic reranking, and 24/7 support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$184/month","features":["All Platinum features","Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers","Elastic Maps Server","Cross-cluster search with ES|QL","ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder with LLM","AI-powered dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","AI Playground for RAG","Inference Service Management","Semantic reranking with ML models","Learn-to-Rank personalization","Storage optimization (DiskBBQ)","Attack Discovery with agentic investigation","Premium support (30-minute urgent response)","Cloud workload protection"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Platinum features plus searchable snapshots, GPU inference, AI-driven workflows, agent building, data federation, and premium support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Browser Tests","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Lightweight Tests","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-09-07T13:11:22.839Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Cloud","summary":"From $20/month with usage or resource-based pricing","features":["14-day free trial","Email support","Fully managed infrastructure","Usage-based or resource-based billing","Automatic scaling","Automatic upgrades"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":2.9,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Managed cloud hosting with automatic scaling and support","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Self-Hosted","summary":"Free","features":["Full infrastructure control","No usage limits","MIT license"],"description":"Open-source MIT license for on-premise deployment with full infrastructure control","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing via quote","features":["Custom infrastructure","Dedicated resources","Up to 99.999% SLA","Dedicated Slack support channel","SSO SAML","SOC 2 Type II compliance","Advanced analytics","Merchandising","Personalization","Search-powered chat","Volume discounts","Advisory services"],"description":"Custom deployments with dedicated support and SLAs for mission-critical workloads","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $20/month with 14-day free trial. Free self-hosted option. Custom enterprise pricing available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T09:19:14.980Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":99,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":20,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | 4 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | 99.999 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active","auditor":"Prescient Security / Vanta","evidenceUrl":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/soc2-typeii-compliance"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance | https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/soc2-typeii-compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=homebrew&package_name=meilisearch&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Elasticsearch | Meilisearch |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | Lucene | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | ES|QL | JSON (HTTP API) |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | Built-in | Built-in |
| Relevance tuning | Learning-to-rank | Ranking rules |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | Dense + lexical fusion | Dense + lexical fusion |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Distributed / horizontal scale | Sharded | Sharded |
| Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ingest** |  |  |
| Real-time indexing | Near-real-time | - |
| **Workload** |  |  |
| Log / analytics workload | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Source-available (SSPL / Elastic) | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T17:47:48.465Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*