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· Last updated: December 1, 2025

Migrating from Algolia to Typesense: Laravel & Vue InstantSearch Guide

Algolia's 2025 pricing increases prompted me to migrate a B2B e-commerce platform with 15K products to Typesense resulting in ~65% cost savings with similar performance. This guide covers the complete Laravel Scout and Vue InstantSearch migration process, including schema configuration, the InstantSearch adapter setup, filter syntax differences, and a script to convert Algolia synonyms to Typesense format.

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