Meilisearch published a comparison of Meilisearch and Manticore Search. We tested the claims against the latest versions of both engines — here's what a fresh look shows, with reproducible commands.
A practical checklist for migrating standalone, distributed, and replicated Manticore Search deployments to authentication without losing access or cluster state.
Learn how to enable Manticore authentication, bootstrap the first administrator, create least-privilege users, use SQL and HTTP credentials, and verify allowed and denied access.
Manticore Search adds built-in authentication and authorization across SQL/MySQL, HTTP, and replication-related operations so teams can control who connects and what each user can do.
Manticore Search 28.4.4 speeds up KNN rescoring, adds HTTP/custom-prompt conversational search, simplifies installs, improves facets and relevance defaults, and fixes auth, replication, SQL, and columnar/KNN issues.
A head-to-head benchmark on 975K 1536-dim vectors: turbopuffer's managed service vs Manticore on two $8.25/mo VPS. Matched recall (~0.966), ~4.5× lower cost, and comparable latency and throughput, with an honest look at where each approach wins.
