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A dollar for 1,000 queries. A million queries costs $10000 dollars? For that money there are so many better options.

by wolco 6y ago

mitchbob 6y ago
And those are?
- theturtletalks 6y ago
  Elastic Search Meili Sonic Depending on your use case, a front-end search library would work too: Elasticlunr JS-search Flexsearch Fuse
- clamprecht 6y ago
  Searchify.com (I'm the founder), you pay per number of documents only. Not number of queries. http://www.searchify.com/plans/ http://www.searchify.com/plans/
- jabo 6y ago
  There are also free & open source options like Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense
- zelly 6y ago
  Elastic Search Lucene Sphinx Solr And thousands of other ones made by hobbyists, but those are the mature (as in since the 90s) ones. For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx.
  - snikolaev 6y ago
    > For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)
  - mrweasel 6y ago
    For a quick search engine it's hard to beat Sphinx. I especially love that you can just point it at a database and give it a query and it will just work.
krasin 6y ago
If a dollar is for 1000 queries, a million queries costs $1000, not $10000.
- jlemoine 6y ago
  (I am the CTO and co-founder). It seems like most people missed that we introduced volume discount in the model. On this example: - 1M queries per month $847 in full pay-as-you-go - 1M queries per month with yearly commitment cost $7200 per year ($600 per month)
  - yurisokolov 6y ago
    1. You say the discounted cost for 1M queries per month with yearly commitment is $600 (= 1000 units, priced incrementally). But according to your website (https://www.algolia.com/pricing/ https://www.algolia.com/pricing/) 1000 units cost: 10 units free + (90 units x $0.83) + (400 units x $0.70) + (500 units x $0.61) = 659.70 ! This would be $659.70 versus the $600 you stated. Am I understanding something wrong? 2. What would be the discounted cost for 10M and 100M queries per month with yearly commitment?
    - jlemoine 6y ago
      1. Yes you miss the yearly discount. 1000 units = 12000 units per year = 7295/year 2. 10M/month with yearly commitment = $46895/year 100M/month with yearly commitment = $165895/year
      - yurisokolov 6y ago
        Thank you for the explanation!

A dollar for 1,000 queries. A million queries costs $10000 dollars? For that money there are so many better options.

by wolco 6y ago

A dollar for 1,000 queries. A million queries costs $10000 dollars? For that money there are so many better options.

mitchbob 6y ago

And those are?

theturtletalks 6y ago
Elastic Search Meili Sonic Depending on your use case, a front-end search library would work too: Elasticlunr JS-search Flexsearch Fuse
clamprecht 6y ago
Searchify.com (I'm the founder), you pay per number of documents only. Not number of queries. http://www.searchify.com/plans/ http://www.searchify.com/plans/
jabo 6y ago
There are also free & open source options like Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense
zelly 6y ago
Elastic Search Lucene Sphinx Solr And thousands of other ones made by hobbyists, but those are the mature (as in since the 90s) ones. For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx.
- snikolaev 6y ago
  > For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)
- mrweasel 6y ago
  For a quick search engine it's hard to beat Sphinx. I especially love that you can just point it at a database and give it a query and it will just work.

krasin 6y ago

If a dollar is for 1000 queries, a million queries costs $1000, not $10000.

jlemoine 6y ago
(I am the CTO and co-founder). It seems like most people missed that we introduced volume discount in the model. On this example: - 1M queries per month $847 in full pay-as-you-go - 1M queries per month with yearly commitment cost $7200 per year ($600 per month)
- yurisokolov 6y ago
  1. You say the discounted cost for 1M queries per month with yearly commitment is $600 (= 1000 units, priced incrementally). But according to your website (https://www.algolia.com/pricing/ https://www.algolia.com/pricing/) 1000 units cost: 10 units free + (90 units x $0.83) + (400 units x $0.70) + (500 units x $0.61) = 659.70 ! This would be $659.70 versus the $600 you stated. Am I understanding something wrong? 2. What would be the discounted cost for 10M and 100M queries per month with yearly commitment?
  - jlemoine 6y ago
    1. Yes you miss the yearly discount. 1000 units = 12000 units per year = 7295/year 2. 10M/month with yearly commitment = $46895/year 100M/month with yearly commitment = $165895/year
    - yurisokolov 6y ago
      Thank you for the explanation!