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lang: en
title: Meilisearch Cloud vs OpenSearch
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license: citation-free
entities:
  -
    role: a
    slug: meilisearch
    name: Meilisearch Cloud
    type: Thing
    profile_url: "https://saasspecs.com/item/meilisearch/?format=md"
  -
    role: b
    slug: opensearch
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    profile_url: "https://saasspecs.com/item/opensearch/?format=md"
---
# Meilisearch Cloud vs OpenSearch

## Pair

- **A**: Meilisearch Cloud
- **B**: OpenSearch

## Entity A

- **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

## Entity B

- **Title**: [OpenSearch](https://saasspecs.com/item/opensearch/?format=md)
- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://opensearch.org
- **Email**: info@opensearch.org
- **Address**: 410 Terry Ave N, Seattle, Washington, 98109, United States
- **Coordinates**: 47.6225, -122.3362
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy OpenSearch Stack Layer](https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/pricing/)

### Summary

Open-source search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch with neural search and observability plugins.

### Description

OpenSearch delivers distributed full-text search, log analytics, and k-NN vector search under the Apache 2.0 license. AWS OpenSearch Service and self-hosted clusters support production deployments.

### Expert insight

Enable k-NN vector search plugins early when building hybrid retrieval pipelines to avoid reindexing after traffic scales.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: Open Source
- **Rate Limit Cap**: Cluster Bound
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: $0
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via AWS IAM and OpenSearch dashboard access policies
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Supported on Amazon OpenSearch Service with SAML and Cognito federation
- **Custom Domain Support**: VPC-bound domains with AWS PrivateLink and custom endpoint routing
- **Supported SDKs**: JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, .NET, REST, OpenSearch DSL
- **Social Providers**: AWS IAM and corporate SSO for OpenSearch Service authentication
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA Eligible, PCI-DSS Compliant, FedRAMP Moderate
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Alerting plugins and event-driven indexing with configurable retry policies

## Facts (machine-readable)

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

## Metrics

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

## Comparison context

This comparison covers the following catalog entities:

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