{
  "slug": "typesense",
  "name": "Typesense",
  "url": "https://typesense.org",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Open-source search engine + cloud",
  "price": "OSS free (GPL-3.0, self-host). Typesense Cloud bills hourly per configured cluster (RAM/vCPU) with no per-search fees. Free tier is 720 hours + 10GB bandwidth, once for the lifetime of the account.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A C++ search engine built as an open-source alternative to Algolia. Ships typo tolerance, faceting, geosearch, vector and hybrid search in a single self-contained binary. Typesense Cloud gives you a dedicated cluster billed by the hour with <b>no limits on records or search operations</b>.",
  "why": "Fixed hourly pricing makes a search-as-you-type box safe to ship — you are not billed per keystroke. One <code>docker run</code> gets an identical instance running locally.",
  "warn": "The Cloud free tier is <b>one-time, not monthly</b>: 720 hours total per account, then the cluster starts billing. The server is GPL-3.0, which matters if you embed it.",
  "install": "docker run -p 8108:8108 -v/tmp/data:/data typesense/typesense:29.0 --data-dir /data --api-key=xyz",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://typesense.org/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}