Meilisearch October updates

Welcome to our new roundup of product updates, community news, and everything happening across the Meilisearch ecosystem.

This October was big: we wrapped up Launch Week, were featured in the Product Hunt top products newsletter, and hit a few other exciting milestones along the way. Let’s dive in 👇

---

🚀 Product updates: what’s new at Meilisearch

Another Launch Week is in the books! From conversational AI and multi-modal search to personalization and a new pricing model - we shipped five major updates in just five days:

• Meilisearch Chat
• Advanced geosearch
• Enhanced multi-modal search
• Search personalization
• Resource-based pricing

Explore the Launch Week:

🔗 Explore each release, day by day.

🔗 Launch Week recap blog.

---

⚡ AI Search experience, out of the box

We’ve made it easier than ever to experience the power of AI Search - no setup, no data required. With just one click, you can explore a built-in mock dataset and see real-time progress feedback as the search runs:

---

☁️ We are available on AWS marketplace

We’re thrilled to announce that Meilisearch is now live on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace! 😎 AWS has been an incredible partner, and this makes it even easier for customers to deploy Meilisearch directly.

👉 Learn more in this blog post.

---

📊 Cloud UI - billing update

We’ve clarified how project metrics are displayed in the Cloud UI. This also includes users of free trial as well paid resource-based pricing model users:

• Transparent project view: project cards will now display real usage data, not your peak billing values.
• More visibility: both resource-based and free-trial projects will now show current searches and documents metrics directly in the dashboard.

---

🚧 Coming soon: search analytics V2

We’ve heard your feedback and we're now in the final stretch before releasing an upgraded version of Search Analytics. Stay tuned for a deeper, more actionable view of your search performance.

---

Community section & ecosystem news:

Product Hunt feature:

Meilisearch Chat was featured in the Product Hunt Daily newsletter – reaching over a million readers! Huge thanks to our open-source community for the love and excitement around conversational AI built on your own data. 💜

🔥 Fireship x Meilisearch:

We were also featured in the latest Fireship video covering OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas! If you haven’t tried Meilisearch yet, here’s your sign 👀 - there’s even a little code surprise in the video.

→ Watch the video here.

💡 Customer highlights:

See what users are saying about Meilisearch:

"Since we redesigned our Program Finder and implemented Meilisearch, our conversions have more than doubled. We are so very happy with Meilisearch."

Gabriela Sa Teles, Assistant Director of Digital Services at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Tips & resources:

We published a new guide: Optimize Indexing Performance with Batch Statistics

This guide serves to help you use progressTrace to analyze and resolve indexing bottlenecks in Meilisearch.

---

🏢 Company news

In October, we held our regular company offsite where we used the time to refine our long-term vision. During the offsite, we also built this multimodal demo on a massive dataset:

👉 check it our here.

Our CEO Quentin also wrote a post describing the entire stack, if you'd like to learn more about it.

💼 We’re hiring!

Meilisearch is expanding, and we’re opening  several new roles across teams, with more to come!

If you know someone who’d be a great fit - or if you’re curious about what’s next for us 👉 keep an eye on our Careers page.

---

Receive this updates in your inbox by subscribing to our monthly newsletter. To learn more about Meilisearch's future and help shape it, take a look at our roadmap and participate in our Product Discussions.

For anything else, join our developers community on Discord.