Go live

The free plan is capped and on shared capacity. Going live is one step: buy a subscription.

Buy a subscription

Go to Subscriptions → Add Subscription, leave the provider on Search Stack (the fully-managed option), pick your region and a plan.

• Each plan spells out cost, search-result and storage limits, and shared or dedicated capacity. Starter is $29/mo for 50,000 results and 5 GB; the tiers run Starter, Pro, Scale.
• You only need this once you outgrow the free plan's 10,000 records.
• Auto-upgrade moves you up a tier automatically as you approach a limit, so a traffic spike doesn't become an outage.
• No server to run and no infrastructure to manage.

Move your lists onto it

Point your movies, actors and cinemas lists at the new subscription (each list's Options → Change Subscription). Search addresses don't change — https://api.searchstack.dev/search/Demo/movies/1 works before and after.

Launch checklist

1. Add a paid subscription under Subscriptions.
2. Move your movies, actors and cinemas lists onto it.
3. Confirm search still returns results: same URLs, now on your paid capacity.
4. Consider turning on Auto-upgrade so a traffic spike can't hit a wall.
5. Pin the versions your apps depend on (see Versioning).
6. Review who has access and remove any contributors who no longer need it.
7. Rotate the API keys you used while building, and ship a read-only key in your front-end.