Pick Algolia if
search / ecommerce teams who will stay on Free (10K search requests, 50K records) while they open a first Visual Editor pin, then pay Grow at $0.50 / 1K requests after 10K (records $0.40 / 1K after 100K).
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Our take
Pick Algolia if search / ecommerce teams who will stay on Free (10K search requests, 50K records) while they open a first Visual Editor pin, then pay Grow at $0.50 / 1K requests after 10K (records $0.40 / 1K after 100K). Pick Typesense if teams who will stay on the GPL self-host at $0 while they open a first Collection Search, then buy a Typesense Cloud cluster when they do not want to operate the binary — and will
Typesense
open-source search engine
Best for
Algolia Records you merchandise inside a $0 start
Typesense Typed search you start at $0 on your host (or a Typesense Cloud cluster)
Free plan
Algolia $0 · no card. 10K search requests / month. 50K records. 5K recommendation requests / month. 5K crawls / month
Typesense $0 · gPL-3.0. You run the Typesense binary. Confirmed by the GitHub license key gpl-3.0
Lowest paid
Algolia Crawler overage $0.80
Typesense Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Algolia Local or hosted
Typesense Local; you host it
Watch out
Algolia Free caps at 10K requests and 50K records
Typesense $0 is the license, not the Cloud cluster
Last checked
Algolia 2026-10-23 · algolia.com/pricing
Typesense 2026-10-23 · cloud.typesense.org/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Typesense if
teams who will stay on the GPL self-host at $0 while they open a first Collection Search, then buy a Typesense Cloud cluster when they do not want to operate the binary — and will confirm the cluster $ at checkout because the marketing pricing page does not print it.
Read the Typesense page