[wolco]

A dollar for 1,000 queries. A million queries costs $10000 dollars?

For that money there are so many better options.

[krasin]

If a dollar is for 1000 queries, a million queries costs $1000, not $10000.

[jlemoine]

(I am the CTO and co-founder). It seems like most people missed that we introduced volume discount in the model.

On this example: - 1M queries per month $847 in full pay-as-you-go - 1M queries per month with yearly commitment cost $7200 per year ($600 per month)

[yurisokolov]

1. You say the discounted cost for 1M queries per month with yearly commitment is $600 (= 1000 units, priced incrementally). But according to your website (https://www.algolia.com/pricing/) 1000 units cost: 10 units free + (90 units x $0.83) + (400 units x $0.70) + (500 units x $0.61) = 659.70 ! This would be $659.70 versus the $600 you stated. Am I understanding something wrong?

2. What would be the discounted cost for 10M and 100M queries per month with yearly commitment?

[jlemoine]

1. Yes you miss the yearly discount. 1000 units = 12000 units per year = 7295/year

2. 10M/month with yearly commitment = $46895/year 100M/month with yearly commitment = $165895/year

[yurisokolov]

Thank you for the explanation!

[mitchbob]

And those are?

[clamprecht]

Searchify.com (I'm the founder), you pay per number of documents only. Not number of queries.

http://www.searchify.com/plans/

[jabo]

There are also free & open source options like Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

[zelly]

Elastic Search

Lucene

Sphinx

Solr

And thousands of other ones made by hobbyists, but those are the mature (as in since the 90s) ones. For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx.

[mrweasel]

For a quick search engine it's hard to beat Sphinx. I especially love that you can just point it at a database and give it a query and it will just work.

[snikolaev]

> For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx

Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)

[theturtletalks]

Elastic Search Meili Sonic

Depending on your use case, a front-end search library would work too:

Elasticlunr JS-search Flexsearch Fuse