Ecommerce search and merchandising · Named, not rankedMeilisearch
Meilisearch is an open-source search engine that teams can self-host · meilisearch.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Meilisearch has 6.
Why models recommend it
“Open source, easy to set up, and has a managed cloud option starting around $20/month.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Typesense or Meilisearch if: You want open-source options”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Typesense or Meilisearch — *Best Open-Source Alternatives*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Meilisearch — Best Developer Experience”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Raw Algolia, Meilisearch, Typesense | Non-Technical Merchandising Teams: ... you will end up having to build internal tools custom-coded by developers”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Meilisearch, over the 14 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 5 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 4 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Meilisearch's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- $20
- Starting price
- 20
- Free plan or trial
- 14-day free trial, no credit card required
- Integrations
- 3
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR
- Customers named
- CarbonGraph, Hugging Face, Louis Vuitton, Bookshop.org, CarJager, Samtec, Scenario, Touchless
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 10 of the 14 answers that named Meilisearch and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-five of the thirty-five domain citations in answers naming Meilisearch came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 279 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Comparison | 37 | 4 | 2026-10-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2026-03-10 | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Full text search vs semantic search comparison
- 2026-09-23Raptor rag blog
- 2026-09-17Diagnose slow saas search blog
- 2026-09-09Agentic search blog
- 2026-09-01Opensearch alternatives comparison
- 2026-08-27Lucene alternatives comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page meilisearch.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.