Build a realistic monthly search budget
The subscription is only one part of running storefront search. Someone also reviews failed queries, maintains synonyms, checks merchandising rules and tests releases. Enter the hours your team expects to spend each month and an hourly rate to calculate that internal effort. This is an opportunity cost for your team, rather than a separate invoice from an app provider. It excludes initial migration, design work, taxes and any implementation partner fees.
Use a representative month from your analytics for search volume. If you only know store sessions, choose the sessions option: this uses the shared illustrative search share shown beside your result. Sessions are not searches, and a shopper can submit several queries during one visit. Replace this estimate with measured search requests before requesting a binding quote. Product counts should reflect the records that the provider actually bills, which may include variants or separate language indexes.
How to read unavailable prices
Subscription prices for the six providers are awaiting verification, so no verified amounts or checking dates are shown. Their official candidate source links are provided for further checking; a link does not mean its pricing has been validated. Unavailable means unknown, including Shopify Search & Discovery. It never means a zero subscription. Your calculable labor appears separately, so an unknown app price cannot silently become a complete monthly total.
When verified prices are available, compare product and search limits, supported language counts and Hydrogen eligibility. Supported overages are charged in whole billing units. A plan outside those requirements is unavailable. App amounts retain their original currency, and a combined total is possible only when the labor currency matches. The calculator does not convert currencies or assume an exchange rate.
Compare operating models as well as subscriptions
Indexa uses a fixed monthly fee, set up and tuned by us. Its public numeric fee is deliberately hidden here, so no saving or price comparison is claimed. Ask for an audit to discuss your catalog, languages and storefront architecture. Compare who owns ongoing relevance work, how changes are tested and what support is included. A useful buying decision combines the verified commercial offer with the effort and requirements recorded in this calculator. Save the result through the follow-up form when you want a manual conversation; submitting it does not automatically send a report by email.