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And those are?

Searchify.com (I'm the founder), you pay per number of documents only. Not number of queries.

http://www.searchify.com/plans/

There are also free & open source options like Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense

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.

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.

For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx

Actually Manticore Search (fork of Sphinx)

Elastic Search Meili Sonic

Depending on your use case, a front-end search library would work too:

Elasticlunr JS-search Flexsearch Fuse

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