Pricing trends for Search: 5 tracked pricing changes across 6 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Search Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

6
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
3
At-Risk Vendors
removed 2 reduced 2 rebranded 1

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.

removed bonsai.io discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown high
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 ↗
reduced Algolia effective 2026-08-12 high
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 ↗
rebranded CommandBar discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
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.
removed Brave Search API effective 2026-02-12 high
Free tier (2,000 queries/month) eliminated. Replaced with $5 prepaid metered credits at $0.003-$0.005 per query (pay-as-you-go). Credit card required, no spending cap Source ↗
reduced Google Programmable Search Engine effective 2026-01-22 high
Free full-web search being discontinued. Free tier restricted to max 50 domains per search engine. Migration deadline January 1, 2027 Source ↗

We hold 2 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 3 of the 6 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a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time.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.

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