What this section prints is decided by the calendar, not by anything the vendor did. One record here carries a date after 2026-11-14. The vendor has announced it and it has not taken effect, so it is not part of the history below. On its own date a record here joins the Pricing Change Timeline, below.
Existing customers can call Google's Custom Search JSON API until January 1, 2027, when Google discontinues it. It is closed to new customers. Programmable Search Engine engines set to search the entire web, or more than 50 domains, can do so until the same date. Google names Vertex AI Search as the alternative for up to 50 domains. Source ↗
Pricing Change Timeline
Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.
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 ↗
removedbonsai.ioeffective between 2026-03-12 and 2026-07-28high
The free tier no longer exists. The lowest tier is now a 'Staging' plan at $15/month with 1 GB storage and 256 MB memory. Source ↗
rebrandedCommandBardiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Rebranded to Command AI, no free tier visible, demo-only We hold no source for this record, so it does not set CommandBar's rating.
Free full-web search being discontinued. Free tier restricted to max 50 domains per search engine. Programmable Search Engine engines searching the entire web can continue doing so until January 1, 2027; Custom Search JSON API users must transition to an alternative by January 1, 2027. Source ↗
We hold 3 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.
At-Risk Vendors
All 2 of the 5 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a product retired or a free tier withdrawn and not restored, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.