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title: Elasticsearch vs Meilisearch Cloud
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  -
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# Elasticsearch vs Meilisearch Cloud

## Pair

- **A**: Elasticsearch
- **B**: Meilisearch Cloud

## Entity A

- **Title**: [Elasticsearch](https://saasspecs.com/item/elasticsearch/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://www.elastic.co
- **Email**: support@elastic.co
- **Address**: 800 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7749, -122.4194
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Elasticsearch Stack Layer](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch/service/signup)

### Summary

Industry-standard distributed search and analytics engine with full-text search, aggregations, and vector search.

### Description

Elasticsearch powers full-text search, log analytics, and vector similarity queries across distributed clusters. Elastic Cloud offers managed hosting while the open-source build supports self-hosted deployments.

### Expert insight

Use index lifecycle management to roll hot indices to warm tiers and control storage costs on long-retention log data.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Self-Hosted Only
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Cluster Bound
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: $0
- **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

## Entity B

- **Title**: [Meilisearch Cloud](https://saasspecs.com/item/meilisearch/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://www.meilisearch.com
- **Email**: support@meilisearch.com
- **Address**: 12 Rue de la Paix, Paris, Île-de-France, 75002, France
- **Coordinates**: 48.8698, 2.3316
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Meilisearch Cloud Stack Layer](https://www.meilisearch.com/cloud)

### Summary

Open-source-friendly search engine with conversational AI features and millisecond full-text retrieval.

### Description

Meilisearch Cloud hosts managed instances with typo tolerance, faceted filtering, and hybrid keyword-plus-vector search. Teams migrate from self-hosted OSS with minimal API surface changes.

### Expert insight

Enable embedders in the same index to blend keyword relevance with semantic vectors without a separate vector database.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 100,000 Records
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 1,000 Concurrent Requests
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 15 USD/node
- **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

## Facts (machine-readable)

| axis | unit | a_value | b_value | a_display | b_display |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier Allowance | Records |  | 100000 | Self-Hosted Only | 100,000 Records |
| Rate Limit Cap | Concurrent Requests |  | 1000 | Cluster Bound | 1,000 Concurrent Requests |
| Session Lifetime | Hours | 24 | 24 | 24 Hours | 24 Hours |
| Overage Fee per 1k MAU | USD | 0 | 15 | 0 USD | 15 USD/node |

## Metrics

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Self-Hosted Only / 100,000 Records
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Cluster Bound / 1,000 Concurrent Requests
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours / 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0 USD / 15 USD/node

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

- [Elasticsearch](https://saasspecs.com/item/elasticsearch/?format=md) (a)
- [Meilisearch Cloud](https://saasspecs.com/item/meilisearch/?format=md) (b)