diff --git a/milli/src/lib.rs b/milli/src/lib.rs
index bb4f47e47..9cae8b254 100644
--- a/milli/src/lib.rs
+++ b/milli/src/lib.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use std::hash::BuildHasherDefault;
 pub use filter_parser::{Condition, FilterCondition};
 use fxhash::{FxHasher32, FxHasher64};
 pub use grenad::CompressionType;
+pub use heed;
 pub use meilisearch_tokenizer as tokenizer;
 use serde_json::{Map, Value};