But paying $35/month to search 1289 videos doesn't make sense.
You're not paying to search 1,289 videos, you're paying to not worry about implementing search.
Nah, I can just get my nephew to do it, and he'll do it for cheap!
Algolia pricing page is intentionally misleading - there is a free "community" tier that has to display "search by algolia", but is otherwise free to use.
It's easy to be fast when the results are wrong! Search for Perl, get Python and Javascript videos.