Deploy Elasticsearch
👉 Open Source Core • Unbound Enterprise Cluster Search
Deploy Meilisearch Cloud
👉 100,000 Free Records • Typos-Tolerant Search API
Elasticsearch
- Free Tier Allowance
- Self-Hosted Only
- Rate Limit Cap
- Cluster Bound
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Elastic Cloud console MFA and SAML-enforced organization login
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Supported on Enterprise plans with SAML, OIDC, and RBAC
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom domains and private endpoints on Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET, REST, Elasticsearch DSL
- Social Providers
- Google and corporate SSO for Elastic Cloud account management
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR on Enterprise tiers
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Watcher alerts and ingest pipelines with dead-letter index replay patterns
Insight: Elasticsearch
Use index lifecycle management to roll hot indices to warm tiers and control storage costs on long-retention log data.
Meilisearch Cloud
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Meilisearch Cloud account two-factor authentication
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Available on Enterprise plans with SAML and organization RBAC
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom API endpoints and dedicated instances on Enterprise tiers
- Supported SDKs
- JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Dart
- Social Providers
- GitHub OAuth for cloud project provisioning
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; HIPAA on Enterprise agreements
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Task webhooks with status polling and configurable retry on failed batches
Insight: Meilisearch Cloud
Enable embedders in the same index to blend keyword relevance with semantic vectors without a separate vector database.