Datastore vs Search API on pricing

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I have entities that I need to search through. They can all easily fit into Documents within Search API (because all of it's properties need to be searchable) or within Datastore as Entities (I'm losing full search capabilities but it's not that important to me because I can work-through with Datastore rudimentary search).

So I can put my entities into Search API or Datastore so I can search and retrieve them later.

Datastore pricing is $0.06 per 100,000 operations where Query pricing is 1 read + 1 read per entity retrieved. Search API pricing is $0.50 per 10K queries. The storage costs are the same.

If my search averages ~200 results per query that would be:

  • 1 + 200 operations or about 100,000/200=500 searches for $0.06 which is $0,00012/per search for Datastore
  • 10K queries for $0.50 or $0,00005/per search for Search API

Is the datastore that (2,4x) much more expensive or...?

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1 Answers

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Default limit for Search API results is 20, and as from my experience using it in the past it becomes really slow with large limits. Datastore becomes more expensive only when you will return more than 80 results per page.

Search API will cost you 0.05 * 100 = $5 per one million any queries.

Datastore will cost you 80 * 0.06 = $4.8 per one million queries with limit 80.