Quick Start: From Free Account to First Search

Five steps

From a free account to your first search. Each step links to the page that explains it.

1. Create your free account at opensolr.com/register. The free plan has no time limit.
2. Create an Opensolr Index. In the top menu open Solr > Add New Index, click a region card, type an Index Name and click Add Index. Create an index.
3. Note how to reach it. Open Solr > Index List and click the cog of your index. The Info tab shows its Host, Port and Path. A new index logs in with the username opensolr and your API key as the password. Connect to your index.
4. Put your data in, the way that fits your site:
   • Drupal or WordPress: the free Drupal module or WordPress plugin sends your content for you.
   • Any website: crawl your site, or push your data from your own code. Both need an index in a region with site search: what your index needs.
   • Your own app: the standard Solr API, or the packages for Laravel, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack and MCP.
5. Run your first search. In the control panel of the index, click Solr Query in the Quick Actions bar: the first search of your index opens in a new tab. Indexes filled for site search also get a ready hosted search page.

The free plan

Live numbers from the plan itself:

• Opensolr Indexes1
• Disk space, per index19.5 MB
• Bandwidth, per index, per month102.4 MB

Bigger plans: Pricing. What disk space and bandwidth mean: Disk space, Bandwidth.