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Replacement brief
Algolia
Replaces hosted search index
Excellent relevance, expensive at scale. Postgres full-text search or a self-hosted Meilisearch/Typesense covers 90% of use cases.
The verdict weighs direct cost against maintenance, reliability, migration risk, and founder time.
- Verdict
- medium Operational work required
- Estimated annual saving
- $500 against the typical bill
- Open-source options
- 3 reviewed alternatives
01 / Deploy
Start with one command
A Teploy-style starting point for a small VPS. Review the generated configuration, then replace the example host and domain with your own.
teploy deploy --image meilisearch --host hetzner --domain search.example.comBefore you migrate
Price the operational work alongside the server bill. Postgres trigram + GIN index is enough for most app search bars.