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For search	PineconeBuilding block	FirecrawlBuilding block	Exa
Free tier	Yes Starter plan: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units per month, 5 indexes. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Yes 1,000 credits per month, no card required. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Yes

Starting price	$20/month Builder plan, flat monthly price. Source, Sep 29, 2026	$16/month Hobby plan, 5,000 credits/month, billed annually. Source, Sep 29, 2026	$4 per 1,000 searches Pay-as-you-go Instant search, up to 10 results per request. Source, Sep 29, 2026

Rate limit	100 queries/sec per namespace Starter plan; upserts also 100 requests/sec per namespace. Source, Sep 29, 2026	10 requests/min Free plan scrape/map/search; crawl is 2/min, 2 concurrent requests. Source, Sep 29, 2026	10 QPS Default for /search, /answer and /chat/completions; /contents is 100 QPS. Source, Sep 29, 2026

Size limit	top_k max 10,000 Dense vectors up to 20,000 dimensions; 40 KB filterable metadata per record. Source, Sep 29, 2026	10,000 pages per crawl Default crawl limit; larger crawls bounded by available credits. Source, Sep 29, 2026	100 results per query Public max for numResults; higher limits via sales. Source, Sep 29, 2026

EU hosting	Yes eu-west-1 (Ireland) and europe-west4 (Netherlands) on Builder plan and above. Source, Sep 29, 2026	No Privacy policy states servers and data are located in the United States. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Not listed