Comparison

Meilisearch vs Quickwit

On the evidence we track, Meilisearch leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Meilisearch65
Quickwit54
Score
Vioscale score
Meilisearch65 / 100medium · 73%
Quickwit54 / 100medium · 52%
Pricing
Free tier
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Model
Meilisearchcommercial
Quickwitcommercial
Price level
Meilisearchmid
Quickwitfree
Transparent
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Integrations
Count
Meilisearch23
Quickwit9
Reliability
Sla pct
Meilisearch99.999
Quickwit
Status page
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Adoption
Dependent repos
Meilisearch0
Quickwit2
Github stars
Meilisearch59,100
Quickwit11,547
Activity
Commits last 30d
Meilisearch89
Quickwit51
Release
Cadence days
Meilisearch4
Quickwit28
History
Meilisearch20 items
Quickwit20 items
License
Spdx
Meilisearch
QuickwitApache-2.0
Language
Primary
MeilisearchRust
QuickwitRust
Market
Availability
Quickwit

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for search engines. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
MeilisearchManaged
QuickwitSelf-hosted
Architecture
Index engine
Meilisearch-
QuickwitTantivy
Query
Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)
Meilisearch-
QuickwitElasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST
Faceting & filtering
MeilisearchYes
QuickwitYes
Geo search
Meilisearch
Quickwit-
Relevance
Typo tolerance / fuzzy
Meilisearch-
Quickwit-
Relevance tuning
Meilisearch-
Quickwit-
Vector
Vector / hybrid search
MeilisearchDense + lexical fusion
Quickwit-
Scale
Distributed / horizontal scale
MeilisearchSharded
QuickwitSharded
Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Ingest
Real-time indexing
Meilisearch-
QuickwitNear-real-time
Workload
Log / analytics workload
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Licensing
Licence class
MeilisearchPermissive OSS
QuickwitPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Meilisearch

Leader

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.

Independently observed

Quickwit

Open-source search engine and log analytics platform with real-time indexing, distributed deployment, and Elasticsearch API compatibility.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Meilisearch

Leader
from $30/moHybridFree tier14-day trial

From $30/month for cloud. Free 14-day trial or self-hosted open-source option.

  • Build$30/month for 50,000 searches and 100,000 documents
  • Pro$300/month for 250,000 searches and 1,000,000 documents
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume discounts
    • Premier SLA support
    • Resource-based pricing option
as of verify ↗

Quickwit

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Meilisearch
Quickwit
CLI
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Meilisearch
Quickwit
Self-hosted
Meilisearch
Quickwit

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Meilisearch

Leader
23 total
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Java
  • .NET
  • Swift
  • Dart
  • Laravel
  • Rails
  • Symfony
  • Strapi
  • Firebase
  • React
  • Vue
  • Angular
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • meilisync
  • MCP
Independently observed

Quickwit

9 total
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Kafka
  • SQS
  • Elasticsearch
  • Jaeger
  • Trino
  • OTLP
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.