# Meilisearch vs Vespa (slim)

> Meilisearch scores 78.6 (A) to Vespa's 70 (BB) for vector search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Meilisearch scores 78.6 (A) on agent readiness against Vespa's 70 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Vespa leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do vector search.

- Meilisearch: A 78.6, rank #14 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meilisearch.min.md
- Vespa: BB 70, rank #165 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vespa.min.md
- 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 80; Schema & documentation, 93 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 80.
- Vespa, good for Teams that need hybrid retrieval with custom ranking at scale and can maintain a schema and application package. Ahead on Security & auth, 75 against 67; Transparency & trust, 85 against 74.

| Category | Meilisearch | Vespa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 93 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 87 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 93 | 91 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Meilisearch | Vespa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Meilisearch | Vespa.ai AS |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | MIT for the Community Edition. Enterprise Edition code, which powers Meilisearch Cloud, is BUSL-1.1 | Apache-2.0 for the engine, the Vespa CLI and pyvespa. Vespa Cloud is a paid hosted service |
| Tools exposed | 4 | none |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-17 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 60k stars, 752k npm/wk | 7.1k stars, 180k PyPI/wk |