# Meilisearch vs Quickwit

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Meilisearch

| Attribute | Meilisearch | Quickwit |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 64.5 (73% (medium)) | 54.4 (52% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 89 | 51 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | 59,100 | 11,547 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Open-source search engine and log analytics platform with real-time indexing, distributed deployment, and Elasticsearch API compatibility. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","deployment":"managed","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion"}` | `{"faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST","deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"sharded","index_engine":"tantivy","licence_class":"permissive_oss","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"realtime_indexing":"near_real_time"}` |
| integrations.count | 23 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"SQS"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"OTLP"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | Rust |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://quickwit.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:50:18.609Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 4 | 28 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.999 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 7.4 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=interprete&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=quickwit-telemetry&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Meilisearch | Quickwit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | - | Tantivy |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | - | Elasticsearch-compatible REST API, SQL (Trino-compatible), query AST |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✓ | - |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | - | - |
| Relevance tuning | - | - |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | 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 2026-09-01T16:44:57.600Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*