# Meilisearch: how AI models rank it, October 2026

GTM AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 5 judge labels across 1 categories by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://gtm-ai-index.com/vendors/meilisearch/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecommerce search and merchandising | 0% | 22 | 0% | 5 |

## What the models said for it

- "Open-source search like Meilisearch, Typesense, or Elasticsearch can be cheaper on software cost" (Perplexity Sonar, Ecommerce search)
- "Have developers, want lowest long-term cost | Meilisearch self-hosted" (Kimi K2, Ecommerce search)
- "if you have engineering capacity and want to minimize vendor cost" (Perplexity Sonar, Ecommerce search)
- "Open-source, fast setup | Budget-conscious, technical teams" (Kimi K2, Ecommerce search)

## In its own words

What Meilisearch's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: One platform to build, scale, and unify search and AI retrieval (https://meilisearch.com/)
- For: teams (https://meilisearch.com/)
- Price stated: $20 (https://meilisearch.com/)
- Starting price: 20 (https://meilisearch.com/)
- Free plan or trial: 14-day free trial, no credit card required (https://meilisearch.com/)
- Integrations claimed: 3 (https://www.meilisearch.com/products/rag)
- Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, SOC 2 Type II certified, SOC2 type 2 report
- Customers named: CarbonGraph, Hugging Face, Louis Vuitton, Bookshop.org, CarJager, Samtec, Scenario, Touchless

## What it publishes

Every page meilisearch.com exposes, read 2026-10-05: 845 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 279 pages, 5 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-23
- comparison: 37 pages, 4 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-10-01
- template or tool: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 6 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-03-10
- news or press: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-10-01 comparison: Full text search vs semantic search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/full-text-search-vs-semantic-search
- Recent: 2026-09-23 blog: Raptor rag https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/raptor-rag
- Recent: 2026-09-17 blog: Diagnose slow saas search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/diagnose-slow-saas-search
- Recent: 2026-09-09 blog: Agentic search https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/agentic-search
- Recent: 2026-09-01 comparison: Opensearch alternatives https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/opensearch-alternatives
- Recent: 2026-08-27 comparison: Lucene alternatives https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/lucene-alternatives

## Record

- Method: https://gtm-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://gtm-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as GTM AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, gtm-ai-index.com.