Installation and operating systems

You can install Meilisearch locally or deploy it over a cloud service.

# Install Meilisearch
curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh

# Launch Meilisearch
./meilisearch

Meilisearch Cloud is one of the easiest way to get started with Meilisearch. The Build plan allows you to index up to 100k documents and perform 10k search requests per month for free!

To deploy Meilisearch on a cloud service, follow one of our dedicated guides:

• AWS
• Azure
• DigitalOcean
• GCP
• Koyeb
• Qovery
• Railway

We discourage the use of older Meilisearch versions. Before installing an older version, please contact support to check if the latest version might work as well.

# Replace {meilisearch_version} and {meilisearch_os} with the specific version and OS you want to download
# For example, if you want to download v1.0 on macOS,
# replace {meilisearch_version} and {meilisearch_os} with v1.0 and meilisearch-macos-amd64 respectively
curl -OL https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases/download/{meilisearch_version}/{meilisearch_os}

# Rename binary to meilisearch. Replace {meilisearch_os} with the name of the downloaded binary
mv {meilisearch_os} meilisearch

# Give the binary execute permission
chmod +x meilisearch

# Launch Meilisearch
./meilisearch

This section lists operating systems Meilisearch officially supports and tests with every new release. Meilisearch binaries might still run in unsupported environments.

If the provided binaries do not work on your operating system, try building Meilisearch from source. If compilation fails, Meilisearch is not compatible with your machine.

The Meilisearch binary works on all Linux distributions with amd64/x86_64 or aarch64/arm64 architecture using glibc 2.27 and later. You can check your glibc version using:

ldd --version

The Meilisearch binary works with macOS 12 and later with amd64 or arm64 architecture.

The Meilisearch binary works on Windows Server 2022 and later.

It is likely the Meilisearch binary also works with Windows OS 10 and later. However, due to the differences between Windows OS and Windows Server, Meilisearch does not officially support Windows OS.