Self-hosted
$0
Recall and polign_db, on your own bucket. Free for as long as it runs.
- No license file or activation
- No node, vector, or query limits
- Your infrastructure and storage
- Build your own products and services
Pricing
Self-hosting is free.
Self-hosting is free.
Pay when you want us involved.
Run Polign Recall and the polign_db engine under it on your own infrastructure at no charge. When you want Polign on your team, the price is a flat annual fee and nothing is metered: no nodes, no vectors, no queries, no seats. Ten design partner seats are open at no charge for 60 days.
Design Partner Program
$0for 60 days
Then $12k for the next 12 months, once the success criteria are met.
Ten seats. A named Polign engineer wires Recall into your agent with you.
- One use case and written success criteria, agreed before day one
- One engineer on your side who owns it, at least four hours a week, and a weekly call with us
- If it works: your logo, one case study, and up to three reference calls
- Half the Production Agreement price for the first paid year
- Terms signed before day one, so day 60 holds no surprises
Production Agreement
$24kper year
Flat. Billed annually. Nothing metered.
Polign on your team, for one number you can budget.
- A named contact with defined response times
- Supported versions and upgrade help
- Priority on the roadmap
- Nothing counted: no nodes, agents, seats, or requests
OEM
Custom
Ship polign_db inside the product you sell.
- The right to redistribute polign_db, which the free license does not give
- Runs in your customers' environments, under your product's name
- Supported versions that follow your release schedule
- One annual fee, agreed up front. No per-customer reporting
Each release is free to run under its included license. For self-hosting, infrastructure costs are paid to your provider separately. Paid agreements are annual only; there is no monthly plan and no usage line on the invoice. Design partner seats start with a short application. We agree one use case, written success criteria, and a named owner on your side, and both sides sign an order form before day one. The seat runs for 60 days. If the criteria are met, we invoice $12k for the following 12 months under those terms; if not, it ends with nothing owed. Production Agreements are signed the same way and invoiced once a year. Building a service on polign_db that you run yourself is covered by the free license. Handing the software itself to your customers needs the OEM agreement.
Building on Polign
What running it actually costs
Recall stores its memory in polign_db, so the infrastructure bill is yours, and it is small: these numbers were measured with polign_db's benchmark harness against same-region Amazon S3. Full methodology on the benchmarks page. For a live example, read the case study: one Wikipedia index in S3, from an $11 box to 860 searches a second.
~$3.20
per million searches straight from S3, no index in RAM, no idle servers
~$0.01
per million durable writes through the broker-free S3 log
$0
while a collection sleeps. Nodes are disposable and scale to zero
32×
more vectors in the same RAM with the compressed index, 97.4% recall
Give your agents one memory.
One pip install to try it. Your own bucket when you share it.