Orama

Embeddable JS search library

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAGorama.com

What it is

A sub-2kB search engine that runs anywhere JavaScript does — browser, Node, Deno, edge workers. Does full-text, vector and hybrid search over the same index, plus faceting, geosearch, typo tolerance and stemming for 30+ languages. Orama Cloud adds hosted indexes and AI answers with citations.

Why it earns a slot

The only search engine small enough to ship inside a Cloudflare Worker or a client bundle and still do hybrid vector search. No server, no cold start, no API key.

Know before you commit

The index lives in memory and is rebuilt on every cold start, so it fits thousands of docs, not millions. Cloud pricing is not published.

Getting started

npm i @orama/orama

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Pricing snapshot

OSS free (Apache 2.0). Orama Cloud is a flat monthly rate plus a one-time onboarding — no published price list; the number appears at checkout or on a sales call.

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Context: Embeddable JS search library. A sub-2kB search engine that runs anywhere JavaScript does — browser, Node, Deno, edge workers. Does full-text, vector and hybrid search over the same index, plus faceting, geosearch, typo tolerance and stemming for 30+ languages. Orama Cloud adds hosted indexes and AI answers with citations.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The only search engine small enough to ship inside a Cloudflare Worker or a client bundle and still do hybrid vector search. No server, no cold start, no API key.
Watch out for: The index lives in memory and is rebuilt on every cold start, so it fits thousands of docs, not millions. Cloud pricing is not published.
Pricing: OSS free (Apache 2.0). Orama Cloud is a flat monthly rate plus a one-time onboarding — no published price list; the number appears at checkout or on a sales call.
Setup: npm i @orama/orama
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Neighbourhood

How Orama sits against the rest of the atlas — swaps, companions and the tools builders actually save alongside it.

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Brave Search API

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$5/month in free credits applied automatically; no standing free query allowance. Search $5 per 1K requests at 50 QPS. Answers $4 per 1K requests plus $5 per million input/output tokens at 2 QPS. Enterprise custom.

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Chroma

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Embedded vector DB + cloud

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OSS free (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud Starter: $0/mo base with $5 free credits, then usage. Team $250/mo + usage with $100 credits. Rates: $2.50 per GiB written, $0.33 per GiB-month stored, $0.0075 per TiB queried, $0.09 per GiB returned.

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Cloudflare Vectorize

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Serverless vector DB on Workers

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Workers Free: 5M stored vector dimensions, 30M queried dimensions/mo. Workers Paid ($5/mo): 10M stored and 50M queried included, then $0.05 per 100M stored dimensions and $0.01 per million queried dimensions.

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