Tested Meilisearch recently, was a great experience, getting a multi-index search running in our frontend was very easy. Just wish they had an Australian instance, the closest is Singapore :(
I installed coolify on a VM (was featured here last week) and it had a one-click Meilisearch docker install. I sent 1,000,000 records to it "just worked" on a little $8/mo Hetzner instance.