Meilisearch

The company follows an open-core infrastructure software model. It maintains and distributes a free, open-source search engine that developers can self-host, which drives adoption and community usage. Around this, it offers commercial, hosted and platform services that operate the search engine as managed cloud infrastructure, adding features such as team management, analytics, monitoring and regional hosting.

Value is created by providing an easier, lower-operations way for engineering and product teams to deploy and scale application search, compared with building and operating their own search stack or using heavier alternatives. Revenue is generated when organisations choose the managed or platform offerings or engage for larger, enterprise-grade deployments with custom terms and support.

Meili is a French software company that develops and commercialises an open-source, full-text search engine used by developers to embed search functionality into websites and applications. Its core engine exposes a RESTful API with typo tolerance, language support, faceting, geosearch and hybrid vector search, and can be self-hosted or consumed as a managed cloud service.

The company creates revenue around this open-source core through hosted and platform offerings that run the engine as a managed SaaS in the cloud, priced by instance size and usage. Its paying customers are product, engineering and DevOps teams in organisations that need application search infrastructure without managing the underlying search stack themselves, including those migrating from alternative search providers.