Installation and operating systems
Installation
You can install Meilisearch locally or deploy it over a cloud service.
Local installation
Download the latest stable release of Meilisearch with cURL.
Launch Meilisearch to start the server.
# Install Meilisearch
curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh
# Launch Meilisearch
./meilisearch
Meilisearch Cloud
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!
Cloud deploy
To deploy Meilisearch on a cloud service, follow one of our dedicated guides:
Installing older versions of Meilisearch
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.
Download the binary of a specific version under "Assets" on our GitHub changelog.
# 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
Supported operating systems
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.
Linux
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
macOS
The Meilisearch binary works with macOS 12 and later with amd64
or arm64
architecture.
Windows
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.