# Cloudflare AI Search vs Meilisearch (slim)

> Meilisearch scores 78.6 (A) to Cloudflare AI Search's 73.5 (BB) for db hybrid. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Meilisearch scores 78.6 (A) on agent readiness against Cloudflare AI Search's 73.5 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare AI Search leads on payments & pricing. Both do db hybrid.

- Cloudflare AI Search: BB 73.5, rank #92 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-ai-search.min.md
- Meilisearch: A 78.6, rank #16 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meilisearch.min.md
- Cloudflare AI Search, good for Teams already on Cloudflare that want a managed retrieval index over their own documents or website, with hybrid search and a ready MCP endpoint, without running a vector database. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 45 against 40.
- Meilisearch, good for Retrieval where typo-tolerant keyword relevance, filters and facets matter as much as vectors, with embeddings generated by the engine. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 70; Maintenance & community, 93 against 78. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Cloudflare AI Search | Meilisearch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 88 | 87 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 93 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cloudflare AI Search | Meilisearch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare, Inc. | Meilisearch |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Price for db hybrid | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement. The `cloudflare` SDKs are Apache-2.0, `ai-search-provider` is MIT and the OpenAPI repository is BSD-3-Clause | MIT for the Community Edition. Enterprise Edition code, which powers Meilisearch Cloud, is BUSL-1.1 |
| Tools exposed | 1 | 4 |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-03-17 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 86 npm/wk | 60k stars, 752k npm/wk |