I was hoping the cloud version would be more appealing, granted there seems to be a generous free tier but the next option is $1200 a month?!
just noticed you don't get high availability on free tier which sucks, but I guess if search is mission critical to the point you need it, you would be willing to pay. Most of these database type companies start off targeting enterprise and then roll out self-serve solutions as they scale.
Maybe I will try out the cloud version then even though I expect my site would probably be well in the free tier limit, like I said it seems like a very generous tier.