Click headers to sort · bar = cheapest paid €/mo · model column shows what you pay for · ⚠︎ = estimate
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⚠︎ What do you actually pay for?
Algolia double billing: a 200,000-product catalog costs ~$80/mo in records before the first search. Infra models: a Typesense cluster bills nights and weekends — cheap only at high utilization; HA triples cost (×3 nodes). Serverless minimums: AWS OpenSearch Serverless requires 2 OCUs ≈ $350/mo — not for light use. Vector search for RAG: see also vector databases.
How to choose?
Static site/documentation: Pagefind — €0, no server. Small app: Meilisearch self-host (MIT, €0 + VPS) or Typesense Cloud (~$7/mo). E-commerce: Algolia leads on UX but calculate record costs for your catalog size; Meilisearch Cloud is more predictable. Log/analytics search at scale: Elastic/OpenSearch — budget hundreds per month.