Headquarters
EU cloud regions
Type II certified
Open-source license
Sovereign search, without compromise
Everything European teams need to ship fast search and stay compliant.
A French company
Meili SAS is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris. Your contract is signed with a European vendor, under French law.
Your data stays in the EU
Pick Paris or Frankfurt when you create a project. Your documents, indexes, and backups stay in that region.
GDPR by design
We act as your data processor, sign a DPA with you, and give you the tools to honor access and erasure requests.
Encrypted everywhere
AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS in transit, with SOC 2 Type II audited controls.
Open source, no lock-in
Meilisearch is MIT-licensed. Self-host it on any European provider or on-premises, and move between cloud and self-hosted at any time.
Choose your AI provider
Bring your own embedder for hybrid and semantic search, including European models or models you host yourself.
Data residency
Pick a European region. Your data stays there.
Every Meilisearch Cloud project lives in a single region you choose at creation. Documents, indexes, and backups never leave it.
Paris
France · PAR
Our home region, for teams with the strictest sovereignty requirements.
Frankfurt
Germany · FRA
Central European region, ideal for DACH and Eastern Europe.
London
United Kingdom · LON
Covered by the EU adequacy decision for the UK.
Trusted by teams across Europe
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