Meilisearch
Meilisearch surfaces four plan types (Open Source / Usage-based from $30 / Resource-based from $23 / Enterprise) with a 14-day free trial and explicit billing entry points, though detailed per-tier limits sit on linked /usage-based and /pricing/platform sub-pages rather than the main /pricing page. xpay verified self-serve signup, public docs, Stripe payment, and an open-source path; no machine-readable pricing manifest was observed.
Predictable costs. Limitless scale — Pay for what you use. Scale when you're ready.
Usage-based plans start at $30/mo; Resource-based start at $23/mo (CPU × RAM × storage)
$0
$23
per monthContact sales
Available
How Meilisearch scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
8 / 25
Self-serve checkout
10 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
5 / 10
Unauth automated payment
3 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
56 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Meilisearch?
Discover price
https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing — four plan cards with starting pricesSelect a plan
Open Source / Usage-based / Resource-based / Enterprise distinguishablePay per task
Usage-based bills by searches + documents; Resource-based bills by infraAvoid a sales call
Cloud plans self-serve via Stripe; only Enterprise contact-salesAPI docs without auth
https://www.meilisearch.com/docs — publicEstimate cost upfront
Starting prices visible on /pricing; full per-search and per-doc rates require navigation to /usage-basedPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
- A unit price is published but consumption per task is not declared upfront — cost predictability is partial.
How Meilisearch could lift its score
Meilisearch already lands in Verified. Two missing points: (1) inline the full per-search and per-document rate card on the main /pricing page; (2) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json plus an anonymous PPU endpoint so an agent can run a single query without provisioning a project.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Predictable costs. Limitless scale — Pay for what you use. Scale when you're ready. |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 23 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | Open source self-host free; 14-day free trial on Cloud usage-based plans |
| per_unit_price | Usage-based plans start at $30/mo; Resource-based start at $23/mo (CPU × RAM × storage) |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 2 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://www.meilisearch.com/docs |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Meilisearch
56
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Search APIs
Predictable costs. Limitless scale — Pay for what you use. Scale when you're ready.
4
Yes
Open source self-host free; 14-day free trial on Cloud usage-based plans
$23/mo
Usage-based plans start at $30/mo; Resource-based start at $23/mo (CPU × RAM × storage)
2 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03