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Apache Solr pricing
Apache Solr publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Apache Solr plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Solr | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Apache Solr stops being free
Apache Solr, Free
- Full functionality
- No usage limits
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Apache Solr lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Apache Solr feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Lucene-based indexing
- Faceted search
- SolrCloud
- Schema control
People bring Apache Solr in for library, archive and catalogue search where faceting is central, long-lived enterprise deployments valuing stability over novelty, search requiring precise, explicitly configured relevance tuning. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Apache Solr are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Solr (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Apache Pulsar | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Solr |
| NATS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Apache Solr |
| Redpanda | Free | Source-available community edition with paid enterprise and cloud tiers | - | vs Apache Solr |
| OpenSearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Apache Solr |
| RabbitMQ | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Apache Solr |
| Meilisearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed cloud billed separately | - | vs Apache Solr |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Apache Solr badges page.
Before you pay for Apache Solr
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Apache Solr runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, self-hosted, and is published by Apache Software Foundation of Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The full record is on the Apache Solr review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Apache Solr pricing questions
- How much does Apache Solr cost?
- Apache Solr publishes a single tier, Apache Solr, at Free.
- Does Apache Solr have a free plan?
- Yes. The Apache Solr tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Apache Solr have a free tier: Apache Pulsar, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ.
- What am I actually paying for with Apache Solr?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for library, archive and catalogue search where faceting is central, long-lived enterprise deployments valuing stability over novelty, search requiring precise, explicitly configured relevance tuning.
- Does Apache Solr charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Apache Solr prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Apache Solr against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Apache Pulsar, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Apache Solr covering price, platforms and features.