Meilisearch Cloud Hybrid and Vector Search

Meilisearch is developed by Meili, a French simplified joint stock company registered in Paris. It is an open-source search and AI retrieval platform that combines full-text, semantic and hybrid search, plus vector storage for similarity queries and RAG applications.

Developers run it self-hosted or on Meilisearch Cloud, with SDKs for JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, .NET, Dart, Rust and Swift. Features cover automated embeddings, multimodal search, conversational chat, foreign filters across shards, and SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance via a trust center. Version 1.54 added an experimental MCP endpoint for AI agents.

• Hybrid and semantic search: blends full-text and embedding-based retrieval.
• Vector storage: similarity queries and RAG support.
• Multimodal search: images, video and audio via AI embeddings.
• Chat UI: conversational search in the Cloud dashboard.
• Cloud operations: guided embedder setup, automatic version upgrades and a disk performance add-on.
• Search rules and MCP: boost, demote or hide documents, and an experimental MCP endpoint.

• A Vietnamese marketplace adding typo-tolerant hybrid product search.
• A documentation or knowledge-base site offering conversational search over its content.
• A SaaS vendor embedding fast in-app search for customers.

• Hybrid search blends keyword and semantic results, improving relevance for product and content catalogs.
• Automated embeddings and a guided embedder setup in Cloud reduce manual configuration.
• Open-source core and SDKs for ten languages shorten integration time.
• SOC 2 Type II and GDPR listed through the trust center support procurement checks.

Search is shifting from keyword matching to hybrid and conversational retrieval, and teams want vector search without running a separate vector database. Vietnamese e-commerce, media and SaaS products with large catalogs, and Vietnamese-language content, can use hybrid search to lift discovery and conversion.

Legal entity Meili SAS, registered office in Paris, France, registered in the Paris trade and companies register. SOC 2 Type II and GDPR listed.