Meilisearch Cloud
Managed Meilisearch from Paris-based Meili. Choose usage-based billing (per document and search) or resource-based instances.
Buyers who want a French vendor with regions in Frankfurt, Paris and London can choose between two billing models. Usage-based starts at $30/month with 100k documents and 50k searches included, then $0.30 per 1,000 documents and $0.40 per 1,000 searches, slightly below Algolia Grow's $0.50 per 1,000 searches. Resource-based instances are priced on vCPU and RAM plus disk instead. Large workloads are negotiated, as the estimator switches to contact us above $1,000/month.
- Headquarters
- 🇫🇷 France
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇫🇷 France
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
- Open source
- Yes · self-hostable
- Website
- www.meilisearch.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Modeled rates
Pricing
Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Resource sizing assumes 1 KB records. Large usage-based estimates may require a negotiated plan. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | Base fee / month | 1k additional records / month | 1k additional searches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | $30 | $0.3 | $0.4 |
| Resource-based XS (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB) | $22.53 | $0 | $0 |
| Resource-based S (1 vCPU, 2 GB) | $39.78 | $0 | $0 |
| Resource-based M (2 vCPU, 4 GB) | $74.28 | $0 | $0 |
| Resource-based L (2 vCPU, 8 GB) | $143.28 | $0 | $0 |
| Resource-based XL (4 vCPU, 16 GB) | $313.06 | $0 | $0 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
Usage-based
- Base fee / month
- $30
- Included records (thousands)
- 100
- 1k additional records / month
- $0.3
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 50
- 1k additional searches
- $0.4
Resource-based XS (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB)
- Base fee / month
- $22.53
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 349 records (thousands); ≤ 500 searches / month (thousands)
Resource-based S (1 vCPU, 2 GB)
- Base fee / month
- $39.78
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 699 records (thousands); ≤ 1,000 searches / month (thousands)
Resource-based M (2 vCPU, 4 GB)
- Base fee / month
- $74.28
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 1,398 records (thousands); ≤ 2,000 searches / month (thousands)
Resource-based L (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
- Base fee / month
- $143.28
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 2,796 records (thousands); ≤ 2,000 searches / month (thousands)
Resource-based XL (4 vCPU, 16 GB)
- Base fee / month
- $313.06
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 5,592 records (thousands); ≤ 4,000 searches / month (thousands)
Usage-based: $30/month base with 100k documents and 50k searches, then $0.30 per 1,000 documents and $0.40 per 1,000 searches. The site's estimator switches to "contact us" above $1,000/month, so large workloads are negotiated. Resource-based: instances from the estimator are XS $17.73, S $34.98, M $69.48, L $138.48 and XL $304.96 per month, plus disk at $0.15/GiB-month (32 GiB minimum, $4.80). Sizing uses the vendor's own estimator at ~1 KB per record: RAM of at least 3 times the data size, and 1 vCPU per 1M searches/month. That vCPU rule is conservative, which is why mid-size and large presets fall back to usage-based pricing. Larger instances (2XL and up) are Enterprise. Regions include Frankfurt, Paris and London. Prices vary by region (e.g. XS $14.88 in N. Virginia). Meili SAS, Paris.
Managed alternatives
At 1M records, 5M searches / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Meilisearch Cloud: $27,360/yr estimated.
- Bonsai: $600/yr estimated · $26,760/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes roughly 1 KB per record and checks document counts, not concurrency. Index overhead, peak traffic and availability can require a larger plan.
- Typesense Cloud: $864/yr estimated · $26,496/yr bill differenceModeled ratesSingle-node cluster with 1 KB records and modeled sizing. Production HA roughly triples cost; EU regions can cost more.
- Amazon OpenSearch Service: $1,063/yr estimated · $26,297/yr bill differenceModeled ratesSingle-node domain sized at 1 KB per record. Multi-zone availability, replicas and peak query load are not modeled.
- Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch): $2,520/yr estimated · $24,840/yr bill differenceModeled ratesUses published example deployments and assumes 1 KB records. Real query load and resource sizing can differ.
- Vespa Cloud: $8,340/yr estimated · $19,020/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
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