Does Azure have a search tool that is not an outrageous $75+/month?

[waxen scaffold]

Hi,

As with most of the Azure tools I've discovered the price for, the "AI Search" is stupidly expensive. I am just looking to make my SaaS website homer page hero search bar have a decent search bar with real-time suggestions upon key stroke.

Does anyone know of another, cheaper Azure service/method or a different service I can use altogether?

If not a specific all-in-one service, I have OpenAI credits I can use (for embedding or whatnot), if that's how people usually do it.

Thanks for any help.

[shy juniper]

I experienced that pain. Turned it on and didn’t use it for three days and paid a hefty amount.

Yes I’d recommend doing it manually. Depends on your architecture. I use Django and Postgres. There’s a vector db extension for Postgres so you can embed and retrieve from there. It’s trivial if you’re already using Postgres.

What’s your architecture?

[waxen scaffold]

Oh, jeez. That sucks!

I ended up deciding to do it manually. I’m using an Azure SQL Server Database and OpenAI to generate the embeds and store them in each row. It works fine so far, I think it’ll do. Though, I wonder if there is possibly a more performative alternative (like a cheaper dedicated service), but it probably doesn’t matter

[shy juniper]

Yes that’s the way to go. Well done ✅