Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure is the foundation of Meilisearch Cloud. Every search experience you build starts with a project: a fully isolated Meilisearch instance with its own indexes, API keys, settings, and resource allocation.

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Projects

A project is a Meilisearch Cloud instance, a dedicated and fully isolated Meilisearch deployment:

• Each project has its own indexes and documents
• Each project has its own API keys and security settings
• Each project is either resource-based or usage-based (see below)

You can create multiple projects in the same account, for example one per application or one per environment (production, staging).

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Resource-based vs usage-based projects

When creating a project, you choose a billing model: Resource-based projects give you a fixed allocation of CPU, RAM, and storage. You have full control over the resources available to your instance, and billing is predictable: you pay for what you provision, regardless of traffic. Usage-based projects scale automatically. Instead of choosing a resource tier, you pay based on the number of searches performed and documents indexed. Meilisearch Cloud provisions the resources needed to serve your workload without you managing capacity. This model is simpler to get started with, but costs are harder to predict since they vary with your usage.

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Regions

Meilisearch Cloud is available in multiple regions across the world. Choose the region closest to your users for the lowest latency. PAR runs on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and is a low-carbon region, making it a good default for European workloads with strict data sovereignty or sustainability requirements. For full region details and latency guidance, see Cloud regions.

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Resource tiers

Each project runs on a resource tier that defines its CPU, RAM, and storage allocation. Choose a tier based on:

• Index size: Larger indexes require more RAM for fast search
• Query volume: High QPS benefits from more CPU
• Vector search: Storing and searching vectors requires additional RAM proportional to the number of dimensions and documents

You can change the resource tier at any time from the project settings.

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Dedicated Resources

Dedicated Resources is a class of dedicated infrastructure available on Enterprise plans. Compared to standard resource tiers, Dedicated Resources offers:

• Dedicated physical resources (no shared CPU or memory with other tenants)
• Higher-performance CPUs with better single-thread and multi-thread throughput
• Faster disk I/O for index reads and writes
• Optimized builds tuned for search workloads

Dedicated Resources is suited for production workloads with strict latency requirements or large indexes. Contact sales@meilisearch.com to enable it.

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