Pick Meilisearch if
app teams who will stay on MIT self-host $0 while they index a first catalog, then start the 14-day Cloud trial (no card) and land on Cloud from $20/month when they do not want to run the engine.
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Our take
Pick Meilisearch if app teams who will stay on MIT self-host $0 while they index a first catalog, then start the 14-day Cloud trial (no card) and land on Cloud from $20/month when they do not want to run the engine. Pick Weaviate if teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Best for
Meilisearch Search you start at MIT $0 or Cloud from $20
Weaviate Vectors you can self-host or rent from $45 Flex
Free plan
Meilisearch $0 · mIT license. No usage cap on the engine. You run the binary
Weaviate $0 · forever. 1 cluster / user. 100,000 objects. 1 GB memory. 10 GB disk. 1 collection, up to 3 tenants. Embeddings 2,000 req/day. Query Agent 1,000 req/month. Best-effort SLA
Lowest paid
Meilisearch Not published by the vendor
Weaviate Premium Shared / Dedicated $0.003875/mo
Next step up
Meilisearch
Weaviate Embeddings (list) $0.025
Coding agent
Meilisearch
Weaviate Query Agent
Runs where
Meilisearch Local; you host it
Weaviate Local; you host it
Watch out
Meilisearch The hero says $20
Weaviate Free is 100k objects and one collection
Last checked
Meilisearch 2026-10-22 · meilisearch.com/pricing
Weaviate 2026-10-22 · weaviate.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Weaviate if
teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Read the Weaviate page