Compare 4 free search tools, free tiers, and developer deals. We could not confirm today's terms for 4 of them: on 2 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
What this name holds: Search indexes queried by relevance rather than by key.
2 other names here answer “where do I put the data and query it”, and each holds a different list: Databases (45), Headless CMS (15).
We track 4 search services with a free tier we hold as current and 2 without. This category has been relatively stable — only 3 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algolia | Free | Search-as-a-service. The Free plan needs no credit card and includes 10K search requests/month, 50K records, 5K recommendation requests/month, 5K crawls/month and 1 application, with some features reserved for paid plans. Grow is pay as you go: 10K search requests and 100K records a month included, then $0.50 per 1K search requests and $0.40 per 1K records.Our read on 2026-09-24 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-24 / 2026-07-05 |
| Typesense Cloud | Free Credit | One-time free credit: 720 hours cluster runtime + 10 GB bandwidth (does not replenish). Smallest node: 0.5 GB RAM / 2 vCPUThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-28 |
| Orama | Free | Full-text, vector, hybrid, and NLP search engine — Free Base plan: 2 included projects, 500 included docs per project (max 5,000 docs/project), 2 indexes per project, unlimited searches, 500 AI sessions/mo, 60-day analytics retention. No credit card required. Extra projects $5/mo, extra indexes $5/mo per 10The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-19 |
| Meilisearch | Free OSS | Free OSS (MIT). Instant search engine with typo tolerance, faceted search, filtering, and sorting. Sub-50ms response times. REST APIWhen we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-19, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-19 / 2026-07-26 |
| Brave Search API | Free | $5 in free credits every month, applied automatically. Search is $5 per 1,000 requests; Answers is $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million tokens. Web search, news, videos, images, LLM context endpoints. 50 queries/sec. Credit card required. The earlier free plan (2,000 queries/mo) ended Feb 2026 | 2026-09-19 / 2026-08-19 |
| bonsai.io | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-05, bonsai.io/pricing reads: The lowest available plan is 'Staging' at $15/month with 1 GB storage, 256 MB memory, and 100k documents. We are not publishing our stored bonsai.io terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-05, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-23 |
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