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Ask HN: Cheaper Algolia Alternative?

Been using Algolia in our small bootstrapped application and it’s costing us $600/m for basic search. Any cheaper alternatives out there?
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Re:Ask HN: Cheaper Algolia Alternative? by coolhoody on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:55AM (#31134764)
Typesense is an open source alternative.

If you cannot self-host it, there is a paid cloud option. It differs from Algolia in that they do not charge by records or search operations. Instead, you get a dedicated cluster and you can throw as much data and traffic at it as it can handle.

https://github.com/typesense/typesense

https://cloud.typesense.org/pricing

Re:Ask HN: Cheaper Algolia Alternative? by simonz05 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:19AM (#31134486)
Look for a solution that doesn't solve everything Algolia does. Hard to say what that is exactly for your company as you don't explain what "basic search" is.