Meilisearch vs Site Search 360

Meilisearch is a search engine that can be added to websites and applications, with self-hosted and cloud deployment options. Full-text search includes automatic typo tolerance and relevance ranking; hybrid search combines keyword precision with semantic understanding. The product also provides retrieval infrastructure for RAG with hybrid retrieval and LangChain support, alongside faceted, federated, multimodal, personalized, and conversational search. Meilisearch supports more than 30 languages with automatic language detection and smart tokenization. Its SDKs, plugins, and integrations cover programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java,.NET, Swift, and Dart. The company says results return in under 50 milliseconds for typical workloads. Self-hosting costs nothing under the MIT license, but users manage infrastructure, updates, backups, and scaling. Cloud starts at $20 a month, with a 14-day free trial, usage- or resource-based billing, and email support. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes dedicated resources and Slack support. Meilisearch says its security measures include encryption, monitoring, assessments, and compliance measures including GDPR and SOC 2 Type 2.

Site Search 360 provides customizable search for websites, including online stores. Its semantic search uses synonyms, recognizes misspellings, and interprets query meaning; its e-commerce search analyzes catalog data with an ontology and AI-enhanced semantic engine. The Search Designer lets customers select layover, full-screen, or embedded results in list or grid layouts. Integrations include Zapier, Make, Drupal, and WordPress, alongside JavaScript, shop extensions, and REST API options. Magento and OXID extensions are named, while Shopware users can contact support about integration. It can index PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Open Office documents, with a stated 15 MB per-file limit. Search is optimized for 19 listed languages. The Free plan is free and allows 150 indexed entries and 1,000 monthly searches, with sitemap indexing, community support, and Site Search 360 branding. Columbo is $9 a month for 1,500 indexed entries and 2,000 monthly searches. A free 14-day trial requires no credit card, and its access includes a 5,000-page indexing cap. The pricing FAQ says searches above quota cost $0.004 per query.