Algolia offers a free tier ("Free"). We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for Typesense Cloud. The page we cite for Typesense Cloud states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-09. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. A badge carrying a date states the record it rests on; a badge with no date rests on no record in force.
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.
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 2026-10-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Pricing Change History
Algolia
reducedeffective 2026-08-12high impact
Algolia replaced its Build plan with a Free plan between the pricing-page captures of 2026-08-10 and 2026-08-13; its Free Plan terms carry a new version from 2026-08-12. The free plan went from 1M records to 50K, and from 10K to 5K recommendation requests and 5K crawls a month; search requests stay at 10K a month. Source ↗
Typesense Cloud
No recorded pricing changes for Typesense Cloud.
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