--- title: CarJager: Millions of Vehicle Searches on Meilisearch description: CarJager, a French classic car marketplace, migrated its site search from Algolia to Meilisearch Cloud to overcome Algolia's 1,000-entity sorting replica... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/carjager-millions-of-vehicle-searches-on-meilisearch-xhxhjzk6b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CarJager: Millions of Vehicle Searches on Meilisearch | daily.dev og:description: CarJager, a French classic car marketplace, migrated its site search from Algolia to Meilisearch Cloud to overcome Algolia's 1,000-entity sorting replica... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/carjager-millions-of-vehicle-searches-on-meilisearch-xhxhjzk6b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xHXhJZK6b.png og:image:alt: CarJager: Millions of Vehicle Searches on Meilisearch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CarJager: Millions of Vehicle Searches on Meilisearch **[Meilisearch](https://daily.dev/sources/meilisearch)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CarJager, a French classic car marketplace, migrated its site search from Algolia to Meilisearch Cloud to overcome Algolia's 1,000-entity sorting replica limit, eliminate DevOps overhead, and reduce costs. With ~1.3M searches/month against a ~2,000-listing catalog, Algolia's pricing was disproportionate. The migration was phased — starting with blog search, then core vehicle listings — and completed in days thanks to API familiarity. Results include native sorting across the full catalog, autoscaling that handles traffic peaks without manual intervention, and a significant cost reduction after right-sizing from an L to M instance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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