# Manticore Search vs Meilisearch

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Meilisearch

| Attribute | Manticore Search | Meilisearch |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54.7 (60% (medium)) | 64.5 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 79 | 89 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,957 | 59,100 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 2,131 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A fast, resource-efficient open-source database for searching large datasets and vector search. It significantly outperforms Elasticsearch while requiring minimal computational resources, and integrates with tools like Kafka and Kibana. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"SQL","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"custom","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` | `{"faceting":"yes","deployment":"managed","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion"}` |
| integrations.count | 5 | 23 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | C++ | Rust |
| license.spdx | GPL-3.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"100% open-source. Professional services and enterprise support plans available.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://manticoresearch.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:39.090Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Build","summary":"$30/month for 50,000 searches and 100,000 documents","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"searches":"50k/mo","documents":"100k"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$300/month for 250,000 searches and 1,000,000 documents","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":300,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"searches":"250k/mo","documents":"1M"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Volume discounts","Premier SLA support","Resource-based pricing option"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $30/month for cloud. Free 14-day trial or self-hosted open-source option.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/typesense-pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:36:14.778Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 30 | 4 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.999 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 3.7 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmanticoresoftware%2Fmanticoresearch&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=interprete&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Manticore Search | Meilisearch |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | Custom | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | SQL | - |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | - | - |
| Relevance tuning | - | - |
| **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 | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:46:41.331Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*