Pricing

Deterministic search API pricing

Search our knowledge base or bring your own data for indexing. No storage costs. No credit card required.

Every plan includes the full API and hosted MCP server. See why there are no per-query inference costs.

Free
$0
  • ✓1K queries/month
  • ✓1 index, 50 docs
  • ✓1 API key
  • ✓10 req/min, 2 req/sec burst
  • ✓Community support
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Starter
$49/mo
  • ✓100K queries/month
  • ✓3 indexes, 500 docs each
  • ✓3 API keys, 3 IaaS jobs
  • ✓100 req/min, 5 req/sec burst
  • ✓Community support
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Growth
$199/mo
  • ✓1M queries/month
  • ✓10 indexes, 5K docs each
  • ✓10 API keys, 10 IaaS jobs
  • ✓500 req/min, 15 req/sec burst
  • ✓Priority support
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Pro
$499/mo
  • ✓5M queries/month
  • ✓25 indexes, 50K docs each
  • ✓25 API keys, 25 IaaS jobs
  • ✓1,200 req/min, 20 req/sec burst
  • ✓Dedicated support
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FAQ

Pricing questions, answered

What counts as a query?

A query is one search or knowledge lookup made with your API key, over REST or MCP: a search of the global knowledge base or of one of your own indexes, an explain call, or a knowledge call such as fetch or resolve. A batch call counts as one query. Managing keys and indexes and checking your usage do not count.

What happens if I reach my monthly query limit?

There are no overage charges. Once you reach your plan's monthly queries, further query requests return HTTP 429 until the quota resets at the start of the next calendar month (UTC), or until you upgrade.

How do the rate limits work?

Each plan has a per-minute request limit and a per-second burst limit, both listed on the plan. Requests over either limit return HTTP 429; slow down and retry.

Are the global knowledge base and MCP server included in every plan?

Yes. Every plan, including Free, can search the 48.4M-entry global knowledge base and use the hosted MCP server with the same API key.

What is an IaaS job?

IaaS (Indexing as a Service) builds an index from your documents and gives you the file to download and run yourself instead of hosting it with ColdState. The number on each plan is how many IaaS jobs you can have open at once. A finished index can be downloaded once, within 24 hours. The Free plan does not include IaaS.

How does billing work, and can I cancel?

Paid plans are billed monthly in US dollars through Stripe; the Free plan needs no credit card. You can cancel at any time from the Billing page and keep your plan until the end of the billing period. Partial months are not refunded, but within the first 14 days of a new paid subscription you can email daniel@coldstate.ai for a full refund.

What does Enterprise include?

Custom quotas, dedicated infrastructure, SLAs, and volume discounts. Email daniel@coldstate.ai to talk through what you need.

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