## Meilisearch Cloud pricing

Pricing page: https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing. Verified 2026-10-25.
Lock-in: Low: open source, so the same index can run on your own server.

### Usage-based (`usage-base`): $30/month base
- Limit: 50,000 search_request (upgrade)
- Limit: 100,000 search_record (upgrade)
- Includes: commercial_use, search.full_text, search.geo, self_host
- Note: $30 a month for 100,000 documents and 50,000 searches. Prices past the base plan aren't published (checked 2026-10-25); larger workloads move to resource-based instances from $23 a month (XS: 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GiB disk), not priced here.

**Sources**
- Meilisearch Cloud: verified 2026-10-25 (https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing)

Confidence: high.

The full result is in the structured content.