Typesense

Open-source search engine + cloud

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAGtypesense.org

What it is

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 no limits on records or search operations.

Why it earns a slot

Fixed hourly pricing makes a search-as-you-type box safe to ship — you are not billed per keystroke. One docker run gets an identical instance running locally.

Know before you commit

The Cloud free tier is one-time, not monthly: 720 hours total per account, then the cluster starts billing. The server is GPL-3.0, which matters if you embed it.

Getting started

docker run -p 8108:8108 -v/tmp/data:/data typesense/typesense:29.0 --data-dir /data --api-key=xyz

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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Evaluate Typesense (https://typesense.org) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Open-source search engine + cloud. 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 no limits on records or search operations.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Fixed hourly pricing makes a search-as-you-type box safe to ship — you are not billed per keystroke. One docker run gets an identical instance running locally.
Watch out for: The Cloud free tier is one-time, not monthly: 720 hours total per account, then the cluster starts billing. The server is GPL-3.0, which matters if you embed it.
Pricing: 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.
Setup: docker run -p 8108:8108 -v/tmp/data:/data typesense/typesense:29.0 --data-dir /data --api-key=xyz
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Neighbourhood

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

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Named in the wiringAlgolia

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Algolia

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Hosted keyword search API

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Free: 10K search requests/mo + 50K records. Grow: $0.50 per 1K searches + $0.40 per 1K records (10K searches / 100K records included). Grow Plus $1.75 per 1K searches. Elevate with NeuralSearch is custom.

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Brave Search API

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Independent web index search API

PaidSearch, vector & RAG

$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

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

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

developers.cloudflare.com

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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