diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/datasourceFilter.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/datasourceFilter.test.ts
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+import { PromAlertingRuleState, PromRuleGroupDTO, PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule, mockPromAlertingRule, mockPromRecordingRule } from '../../mocks';
+import { RuleHealth } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
+import { Annotation } from '../../utils/constants';
+import { getDatasourceAPIUid } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { getFilter } from '../../utils/search';
+
+import { getDatasourceFilter } from './datasourceFilter';
+
+jest.mock('../../utils/datasource');
+
+const getDatasourceAPIUidMock = jest.mocked(getDatasourceAPIUid);
+
+getDatasourceAPIUidMock.mockImplementation((ruleSourceName) => {
+  if (ruleSourceName === 'prometheus') {
+    return 'datasource-uid-1';
+  }
+  if (ruleSourceName === 'loki') {
+    return 'datasource-uid-3';
+  }
+  throw new Error(`Unknown datasource name: ${ruleSourceName}`);
+});
+
+describe('datasource-managed rules', () => {
+  describe('groupFilter', () => {
+    it('should filter by namespace (file path)', () => {
+      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
+        name: 'Test Group',
+        file: 'production/alerts',
+        rules: [],
+        interval: 60,
+      };
+
+      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ namespace: 'production' }));
+      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { groupMatches: groupMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ namespace: 'staging' }));
+      expect(groupMatches2(group)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by group name', () => {
+      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
+        name: 'CPU Usage Alerts',
+        file: 'production/alerts',
+        rules: [],
+        interval: 60,
+      };
+
+      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ groupName: 'cpu' }));
+      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { groupMatches: groupMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ groupName: 'memory' }));
+      expect(groupMatches2(group)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should return true when no filters are applied', () => {
+      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
+        name: 'Test Group',
+        file: 'production/alerts',
+        rules: [],
+        interval: 60,
+      };
+
+      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({}));
+      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('ruleFilter', () => {
+    it('should filter by free form words in rule name', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'High CPU Usage' });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['memory'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by rule name', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'High CPU Usage' });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleName: 'cpu' }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleName: 'memory' }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by labels', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        labels: { severity: 'critical', team: 'ops' },
+        alerts: [],
+      });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=critical'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=warning'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['team=ops'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches3(rule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by alert instance labels', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        labels: { severity: 'critical' },
+        alerts: [
+          {
+            labels: { instance: 'server-1', env: 'production' },
+            state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+            value: '100',
+            activeAt: '',
+            annotations: {},
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['instance=server-1'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['env=production'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(true);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['instance=server-2'] }));
+      expect(ruleMatches3(rule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by rule type', () => {
+      const alertingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'Test Alert' });
+      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({ name: 'Test Recording' });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Alerting }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(alertingRule)).toBe(true);
+      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Recording }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(alertingRule)).toBe(false);
+      expect(ruleMatches2(recordingRule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by rule state', () => {
+      const firingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Firing Alert',
+        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+      });
+
+      const pendingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Pending Alert',
+        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending,
+      });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(firingRule)).toBe(true);
+      expect(ruleMatches(pendingRule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(
+        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending })
+      );
+      expect(ruleMatches2(firingRule)).toBe(false);
+      expect(ruleMatches2(pendingRule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter out recording rules when filtering by rule state', () => {
+      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({
+        name: 'Recording Rule',
+      });
+
+      // Recording rules should always be filtered out when any rule state filter is applied as they don't have a state
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(
+        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending })
+      );
+      expect(ruleMatches2(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(
+        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Inactive })
+      );
+      expect(ruleMatches3(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by rule health', () => {
+      const healthyRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Healthy Rule',
+        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
+      });
+
+      const errorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Error Rule',
+        health: RuleHealth.Error,
+      });
+
+      const prometheusErrorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Error Rule',
+        health: 'err',
+      });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(healthyRule)).toBe(true);
+      expect(ruleMatches(errorRule)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Error }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(healthyRule)).toBe(false);
+      expect(ruleMatches2(errorRule)).toBe(true);
+      expect(ruleMatches2(prometheusErrorRule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should normalize health values when filtering', () => {
+      // Legacy Prometheus health value 'err' should be normalized to 'error'
+      const legacyErrorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Legacy Error Rule',
+        health: 'err',
+      });
+
+      // When filtering for 'error', it should match rules with health 'err' (legacy) or 'error'
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Error }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(legacyErrorRule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter by dashboard UID', () => {
+      const ruleDashboardA = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Dashboard A Rule',
+        annotations: { [Annotation.dashboardUID]: 'dashboard-a' },
+      });
+
+      const ruleDashboardB = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'Dashboard B Rule',
+        annotations: { [Annotation.dashboardUID]: 'dashboard-b' },
+      });
+
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'dashboard-a' }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(ruleDashboardA)).toBe(true);
+      expect(ruleMatches(ruleDashboardB)).toBe(false);
+
+      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'dashboard-b' }));
+      expect(ruleMatches2(ruleDashboardA)).toBe(false);
+      expect(ruleMatches2(ruleDashboardB)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should filter out recording rules when filtering by dashboard UID', () => {
+      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({
+        name: 'Recording Rule',
+        // Recording rules cannot have dashboard UIDs because they don't have annotations
+      });
+
+      // Dashboard UID filter should filter out recording rules
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'any-dashboard' }));
+      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    describe('dataSourceNames filter', () => {
+      it('should match rules that use the filtered datasource', () => {
+        // Create a Grafana rule with matching datasource
+        const ruleWithMatchingDatasource = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
+          queriedDatasourceUIDs: ['datasource-uid-1'],
+        });
+
+        // 'prometheus' resolves to 'datasource-uid-1' which is in the rule
+        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }));
+        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithMatchingDatasource)).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it("should filter out rules that don't use the filtered datasource", () => {
+        // Create a Grafana rule without the target datasource
+        const ruleWithoutMatchingDatasource = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
+          queriedDatasourceUIDs: ['datasource-uid-1', 'datasource-uid-2'],
+        });
+
+        // 'loki' resolves to 'datasource-uid-3' which is not in the rule
+        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['loki'] }));
+        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithoutMatchingDatasource)).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false when there is an error parsing the query', () => {
+        const ruleWithInvalidQuery = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
+          query: 'not-valid-json',
+        });
+
+        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }));
+        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithInvalidQuery)).toBe(false);
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should combine multiple filters with AND logic', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'High CPU Usage Production',
+        labels: { severity: 'critical', environment: 'production' },
+        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
+      });
+
+      const filter = getFilter({
+        ruleName: 'cpu',
+        labels: ['severity=critical', 'environment=production'],
+        ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+        ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok,
+      });
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(filter);
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should return false if any filter does not match', () => {
+      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
+        name: 'High CPU Usage Production',
+        labels: { severity: 'critical', environment: 'production' },
+        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
+        alerts: [],
+      });
+
+      const filter = getFilter({
+        ruleName: 'cpu',
+        labels: ['severity=warning'],
+        ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
+        ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok,
+      });
+      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(filter);
+      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/datasourceFilter.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/datasourceFilter.ts
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+import { PromRuleDTO, PromRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { RulesFilter } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
+
+import { normalizeFilterState } from './filterNormalization';
+import {
+  GroupFilterConfig,
+  RuleFilterConfig,
+  contactPointFilter,
+  dashboardUidFilter,
+  dataSourceNamesFilter,
+  freeFormFilter,
+  groupMatches,
+  groupNameFilter,
+  labelsFilter,
+  namespaceFilter,
+  pluginsFilter,
+  ruleHealthFilter,
+  ruleMatches,
+  ruleNameFilter,
+  ruleStateFilter,
+  ruleTypeFilter,
+} from './filterPredicates';
+
+/**
+ * Builds filter configurations for data source-managed alert rules.
+ *
+ * Constructs filter objects for both rules and groups that are managed by data sources.
+ * All filters are applied on the client-side for data source rules.
+ */
+export function getDatasourceFilter(filterState: RulesFilter) {
+  const normalizedFilterState = normalizeFilterState(filterState);
+
+  const dsRuleFilterConfig: RuleFilterConfig = {
+    freeFormWords: freeFormFilter,
+    ruleName: ruleNameFilter,
+    ruleState: ruleStateFilter,
+    ruleType: ruleTypeFilter,
+    dataSourceNames: dataSourceNamesFilter,
+    labels: labelsFilter,
+    ruleHealth: ruleHealthFilter,
+    dashboardUid: dashboardUidFilter,
+    plugins: pluginsFilter,
+    contactPoint: contactPointFilter,
+  };
+
+  const dsGroupFilterConfig: GroupFilterConfig = {
+    namespace: namespaceFilter,
+    groupName: groupNameFilter,
+  };
+
+  return {
+    groupMatches: (group: PromRuleGroupDTO) => groupMatches(group, normalizedFilterState, dsGroupFilterConfig),
+    ruleMatches: (rule: PromRuleDTO) => ruleMatches(rule, normalizedFilterState, dsRuleFilterConfig),
+  };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.test.ts
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index 00000000000..83a308c4563
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+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.test.ts
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+import { PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { getFilter } from '../../utils/search';
+
+import { buildTitleSearch, normalizeFilterState } from './filterNormalization';
+
+describe('buildTitleSearch', () => {
+  it('should return undefined when no title filters are provided', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({}))).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('should return ruleName when only ruleName is provided', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: 'high cpu' }))).toBe('high cpu');
+  });
+
+  it('should return freeFormWords when only freeFormWords are provided', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu', 'usage'] }))).toBe('cpu usage');
+  });
+
+  it('should combine ruleName and freeFormWords', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: 'alert', freeFormWords: ['cpu'] }))).toBe('alert cpu');
+  });
+
+  it('should trim whitespace from inputs', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: '  alert  ', freeFormWords: ['  cpu  ', '  usage  '] }))).toBe(
+      'alert cpu usage'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('should filter out empty strings from freeFormWords', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu', '', '  ', 'usage'] }))).toBe('cpu usage');
+  });
+
+  it('should return undefined when only empty strings are provided', () => {
+    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: '  ', freeFormWords: ['', '  '] }))).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('normalizeFilterState', () => {
+  it('should lowercase freeFormWords', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['CPU', 'Usage'] }));
+    expect(result.freeFormWords).toEqual(['cpu', 'usage']);
+  });
+
+  it('should lowercase ruleName', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(getFilter({ ruleName: 'High CPU' }));
+    expect(result.ruleName).toBe('high cpu');
+  });
+
+  it('should lowercase groupName', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(getFilter({ groupName: 'Production Alerts' }));
+    expect(result.groupName).toBe('production alerts');
+  });
+
+  it('should lowercase namespace', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(getFilter({ namespace: 'Production/Alerts' }));
+    expect(result.namespace).toBe('production/alerts');
+  });
+
+  it('should handle undefined values', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(getFilter({}));
+    expect(result.ruleName).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.groupName).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.namespace).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('should preserve other filter properties', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(
+      getFilter({
+        ruleName: 'Alert',
+        ruleType: PromRuleType.Alerting,
+        labels: ['severity=critical'],
+        dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'],
+      })
+    );
+    expect(result.ruleType).toBe(PromRuleType.Alerting);
+    expect(result.labels).toEqual(['severity=critical']);
+    expect(result.dataSourceNames).toEqual(['prometheus']);
+  });
+
+  it('should lowercase all relevant fields in a complex filter', () => {
+    const result = normalizeFilterState(
+      getFilter({
+        freeFormWords: ['CPU', 'Memory'],
+        ruleName: 'High Usage',
+        groupName: 'System Alerts',
+        namespace: 'Production/Critical',
+      })
+    );
+    expect(result.freeFormWords).toEqual(['cpu', 'memory']);
+    expect(result.ruleName).toBe('high usage');
+    expect(result.groupName).toBe('system alerts');
+    expect(result.namespace).toBe('production/critical');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d8594135463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterNormalization.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { RulesFilter } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
+
+/**
+ * Build title search parameter for backend filtering
+ * Combines ruleName and freeFormWords into a single search string
+ */
+export function buildTitleSearch(filterState: RulesFilter): string | undefined {
+  const titleParts: string[] = [];
+
+  const ruleName = filterState.ruleName?.trim();
+  if (ruleName) {
+    titleParts.push(ruleName);
+  }
+
+  const freeFormSegment = filterState.freeFormWords
+    .map((word) => word.trim())
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .join(' ');
+
+  if (freeFormSegment) {
+    titleParts.push(freeFormSegment);
+  }
+
+  if (titleParts.length === 0) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  return titleParts.join(' ');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Normalize filter state for case-insensitive matching
+ * Lowercase free form words, rule name, group name and namespace
+ */
+export function normalizeFilterState(filterState: RulesFilter): RulesFilter {
+  return {
+    ...filterState,
+    freeFormWords: filterState.freeFormWords.map((word) => word.toLowerCase()),
+    ruleName: filterState.ruleName?.toLowerCase(),
+    groupName: filterState.groupName?.toLowerCase(),
+    namespace: filterState.namespace?.toLowerCase(),
+  };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterPredicates.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterPredicates.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d268a336f08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filterPredicates.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+import { attempt, compact, isString } from 'lodash';
+import memoize from 'micro-memoize';
+
+import { Matcher } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
+import { PromRuleDTO, PromRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { RulesFilter } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
+import { labelsMatchMatchers } from '../../utils/alertmanager';
+import { Annotation } from '../../utils/constants';
+import { getDatasourceAPIUid } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { fuzzyMatches } from '../../utils/fuzzySearch';
+import { parseMatcher } from '../../utils/matchers';
+import { isPluginProvidedRule, prometheusRuleType } from '../../utils/rules';
+import { normalizeHealth } from '../components/util';
+
+export type RuleFilterHandler = (rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter) => boolean;
+export type GroupFilterHandler = (
+  group: PromRuleGroupDTO,
+  filterState: Pick<RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName'>
+) => boolean;
+
+export type RuleFilterConfig = Record<
+  Exclude<keyof RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName' | 'ruleSource'>,
+  RuleFilterHandler | null
+>;
+
+export type GroupFilterConfig = Record<keyof Pick<RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName'>, GroupFilterHandler | null>;
+
+/**
+ * @returns True if the group matches the filter, false otherwise. Keeps rules intact
+ */
+export function groupMatches(
+  group: PromRuleGroupDTO,
+  filterState: Pick<RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName'>,
+  filterConfig: GroupFilterConfig
+): boolean {
+  if (filterConfig.namespace && filterConfig.namespace(group, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.groupName && filterConfig.groupName(group, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @returns True if the rule matches the filter, false otherwise
+ */
+export function ruleMatches(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter, filterConfig: RuleFilterConfig) {
+  if (filterConfig.freeFormWords && filterConfig.freeFormWords(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.ruleName && filterConfig.ruleName(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.labels && filterConfig.labels(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.ruleType && filterConfig.ruleType(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.ruleState && filterConfig.ruleState(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.ruleHealth && filterConfig.ruleHealth(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.contactPoint && filterConfig.contactPoint(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.dashboardUid && filterConfig.dashboardUid(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.plugins && filterConfig.plugins(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (filterConfig.dataSourceNames && filterConfig.dataSourceNames(rule, filterState) === false) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function namespaceFilter(
+  group: PromRuleGroupDTO,
+  filterState: Pick<RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName'>
+): boolean {
+  if (filterState.namespace && !fuzzyMatches(group.file, filterState.namespace)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function groupNameFilter(
+  group: PromRuleGroupDTO,
+  filterState: Pick<RulesFilter, 'namespace' | 'groupName'>
+): boolean {
+  if (filterState.groupName && !fuzzyMatches(group.name, filterState.groupName)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function freeFormFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.freeFormWords.length > 0) {
+    const nameMatches = fuzzyMatches(rule.name, filterState.freeFormWords.join(' '));
+    if (!nameMatches) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function ruleNameFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.ruleName && !fuzzyMatches(rule.name, filterState.ruleName)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function labelsFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.labels.length > 0) {
+    const matchers = compact(filterState.labels.map(looseParseMatcher));
+    const doRuleLabelsMatchQuery = matchers.length > 0 && labelsMatchMatchers(rule.labels || {}, matchers);
+
+    // Also check alerts if they exist
+    const doAlertsContainMatchingLabels =
+      matchers.length > 0 &&
+      prometheusRuleType.alertingRule(rule) &&
+      rule.alerts &&
+      rule.alerts.some((alert) => labelsMatchMatchers(alert.labels || {}, matchers));
+
+    if (!doRuleLabelsMatchQuery && !doAlertsContainMatchingLabels) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function ruleTypeFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.ruleType && rule.type !== filterState.ruleType) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function ruleStateFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.ruleState) {
+    if (!prometheusRuleType.alertingRule(rule)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (rule.state !== filterState.ruleState) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function ruleHealthFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.ruleHealth && normalizeHealth(rule.health) !== filterState.ruleHealth) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function contactPointFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.contactPoint) {
+    if (!prometheusRuleType.grafana.alertingRule(rule)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (!rule.notificationSettings) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (filterState.contactPoint !== rule.notificationSettings.receiver) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function dashboardUidFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  if (filterState.dashboardUid) {
+    if (!prometheusRuleType.alertingRule(rule)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    const dashboardAnnotation = rule.annotations?.[Annotation.dashboardUID];
+    if (dashboardAnnotation !== filterState.dashboardUid) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function pluginsFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  // Plugins filter - hide plugin-provided rules when set to 'hide'
+  if (filterState.plugins === 'hide' && isPluginProvidedRule(rule)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function dataSourceNamesFilter(rule: PromRuleDTO, filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  // Note: We can't implement these filters from reduceGroups because they rely on rulerRule property
+  // which is not available in PromRuleDTO:
+  // - contactPoint filter
+  // - dataSourceNames filter
+  if (filterState.dataSourceNames.length > 0) {
+    const isGrafanaRule = prometheusRuleType.grafana.rule(rule);
+    if (isGrafanaRule) {
+      try {
+        const filterDatasourceUids = mapDataSourceNamesToUids(filterState.dataSourceNames);
+        const queriedDatasourceUids = rule.queriedDatasourceUIDs || [];
+
+        const queryIncludesDataSource = queriedDatasourceUids.some((uid) => filterDatasourceUids.includes(uid));
+        if (!queryIncludesDataSource) {
+          return false;
+        }
+      } catch (error) {
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+function looseParseMatcher(matcherQuery: string): Matcher | undefined {
+  try {
+    return parseMatcher(matcherQuery);
+  } catch {
+    // Try to createa a matcher than matches all values for a given key
+    return { name: matcherQuery, value: '', isRegex: true, isEqual: true };
+  }
+}
+
+// Memoize the function to avoid calling getDatasourceAPIUid for the filter values multiple times
+const mapDataSourceNamesToUids = memoize(
+  (names: string[]): string[] => {
+    return names.map((name) => attempt(getDatasourceAPIUid, name)).filter(isString);
+  },
+  { maxSize: 1 }
+);
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filters.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.test.ts
similarity index 64%
rename from public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filters.test.ts
rename to public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.test.ts
index af9d9011f89..3825c905a52 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/filters.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.test.ts
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ import { testWithFeatureToggles } from 'test/test-utils';
 
 import { PromAlertingRuleState, PromRuleGroupDTO, PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
-import { mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule, mockPromAlertingRule, mockPromRecordingRule } from '../../mocks';
+import { mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule, mockPromRecordingRule } from '../../mocks';
 import { RuleHealth } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
 import { Annotation } from '../../utils/constants';
 import { getDatasourceAPIUid } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { getFilter } from '../../utils/search';
 
-import { getDatasourceFilter, getGrafanaFilter } from './filters';
+import { getGrafanaFilter, hasClientSideFilters } from './grafanaFilter';
 
 jest.mock('../../utils/datasource');
 
@@ -24,308 +24,6 @@ getDatasourceAPIUidMock.mockImplementation((ruleSourceName) => {
   throw new Error(`Unknown datasource name: ${ruleSourceName}`);
 });
 
-describe('datasource-managed rules', () => {
-  describe('groupFilter', () => {
-    it('should filter by namespace (file path)', () => {
-      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
-        name: 'Test Group',
-        file: 'production/alerts',
-        rules: [],
-        interval: 60,
-      };
-
-      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ namespace: 'production' }));
-      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { groupMatches: groupMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ namespace: 'staging' }));
-      expect(groupMatches2(group)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by group name', () => {
-      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
-        name: 'CPU Usage Alerts',
-        file: 'production/alerts',
-        rules: [],
-        interval: 60,
-      };
-
-      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ groupName: 'cpu' }));
-      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { groupMatches: groupMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ groupName: 'memory' }));
-      expect(groupMatches2(group)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should return true when no filters are applied', () => {
-      const group: PromRuleGroupDTO = {
-        name: 'Test Group',
-        file: 'production/alerts',
-        rules: [],
-        interval: 60,
-      };
-
-      const { groupMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({}));
-      expect(groupMatches(group)).toBe(true);
-    });
-  });
-
-  describe('ruleFilter', () => {
-    it('should filter by free form words in rule name', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'High CPU Usage' });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['memory'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by rule name', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'High CPU Usage' });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleName: 'cpu' }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleName: 'memory' }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by labels', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        labels: { severity: 'critical', team: 'ops' },
-        alerts: [],
-      });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=critical'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=warning'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['team=ops'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches3(rule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by alert instance labels', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        labels: { severity: 'critical' },
-        alerts: [
-          {
-            labels: { instance: 'server-1', env: 'production' },
-            state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-            value: '100',
-            activeAt: '',
-            annotations: {},
-          },
-        ],
-      });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['instance=server-1'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['env=production'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(rule)).toBe(true);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ labels: ['instance=server-2'] }));
-      expect(ruleMatches3(rule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by rule type', () => {
-      const alertingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({ name: 'Test Alert' });
-      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({ name: 'Test Recording' });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Alerting }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(alertingRule)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Recording }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(alertingRule)).toBe(false);
-      expect(ruleMatches2(recordingRule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by rule state', () => {
-      const firingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Firing Alert',
-        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-      });
-
-      const pendingRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Pending Alert',
-        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending,
-      });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(firingRule)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ruleMatches(pendingRule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(
-        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending })
-      );
-      expect(ruleMatches2(firingRule)).toBe(false);
-      expect(ruleMatches2(pendingRule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter out recording rules when filtering by rule state', () => {
-      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({
-        name: 'Recording Rule',
-      });
-
-      // Recording rules should always be filtered out when any rule state filter is applied as they don't have a state
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(
-        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Pending })
-      );
-      expect(ruleMatches2(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches3 } = getDatasourceFilter(
-        getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Inactive })
-      );
-      expect(ruleMatches3(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by rule health', () => {
-      const healthyRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Healthy Rule',
-        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
-      });
-
-      const errorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Error Rule',
-        health: RuleHealth.Error,
-      });
-
-      const prometheusErrorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Error Rule',
-        health: 'err',
-      });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(healthyRule)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ruleMatches(errorRule)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Error }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(healthyRule)).toBe(false);
-      expect(ruleMatches2(errorRule)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ruleMatches2(prometheusErrorRule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should normalize health values when filtering', () => {
-      // Legacy Prometheus health value 'err' should be normalized to 'error'
-      const legacyErrorRule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Legacy Error Rule',
-        health: 'err',
-      });
-
-      // When filtering for 'error', it should match rules with health 'err' (legacy) or 'error'
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Error }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(legacyErrorRule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter by dashboard UID', () => {
-      const ruleDashboardA = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Dashboard A Rule',
-        annotations: { [Annotation.dashboardUID]: 'dashboard-a' },
-      });
-
-      const ruleDashboardB = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'Dashboard B Rule',
-        annotations: { [Annotation.dashboardUID]: 'dashboard-b' },
-      });
-
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'dashboard-a' }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(ruleDashboardA)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ruleMatches(ruleDashboardB)).toBe(false);
-
-      const { ruleMatches: ruleMatches2 } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'dashboard-b' }));
-      expect(ruleMatches2(ruleDashboardA)).toBe(false);
-      expect(ruleMatches2(ruleDashboardB)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should filter out recording rules when filtering by dashboard UID', () => {
-      const recordingRule = mockPromRecordingRule({
-        name: 'Recording Rule',
-        // Recording rules cannot have dashboard UIDs because they don't have annotations
-      });
-
-      // Dashboard UID filter should filter out recording rules
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'any-dashboard' }));
-      expect(ruleMatches(recordingRule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-
-    describe('dataSourceNames filter', () => {
-      it('should match rules that use the filtered datasource', () => {
-        // Create a Grafana rule with matching datasource
-        const ruleWithMatchingDatasource = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
-          queriedDatasourceUIDs: ['datasource-uid-1'],
-        });
-
-        // 'prometheus' resolves to 'datasource-uid-1' which is in the rule
-        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }));
-        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithMatchingDatasource)).toBe(true);
-      });
-
-      it("should filter out rules that don't use the filtered datasource", () => {
-        // Create a Grafana rule without the target datasource
-        const ruleWithoutMatchingDatasource = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
-          queriedDatasourceUIDs: ['datasource-uid-1', 'datasource-uid-2'],
-        });
-
-        // 'loki' resolves to 'datasource-uid-3' which is not in the rule
-        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['loki'] }));
-        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithoutMatchingDatasource)).toBe(false);
-      });
-
-      it('should return false when there is an error parsing the query', () => {
-        const ruleWithInvalidQuery = mockGrafanaPromAlertingRule({
-          query: 'not-valid-json',
-        });
-
-        const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }));
-        expect(ruleMatches(ruleWithInvalidQuery)).toBe(false);
-      });
-    });
-
-    it('should combine multiple filters with AND logic', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'High CPU Usage Production',
-        labels: { severity: 'critical', environment: 'production' },
-        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
-      });
-
-      const filter = getFilter({
-        ruleName: 'cpu',
-        labels: ['severity=critical', 'environment=production'],
-        ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-        ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok,
-      });
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(filter);
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(true);
-    });
-
-    it('should return false if any filter does not match', () => {
-      const rule = mockPromAlertingRule({
-        name: 'High CPU Usage Production',
-        labels: { severity: 'critical', environment: 'production' },
-        state: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-        health: RuleHealth.Ok,
-        alerts: [],
-      });
-
-      const filter = getFilter({
-        ruleName: 'cpu',
-        labels: ['severity=warning'],
-        ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing,
-        ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok,
-      });
-      const { ruleMatches } = getDatasourceFilter(filter);
-      expect(ruleMatches(rule)).toBe(false);
-    });
-  });
-});
-
 describe('grafana-managed rules', () => {
   describe('groupFilter', () => {
     it('should filter by namespace (file path)', () => {
@@ -787,4 +485,80 @@ describe('grafana-managed rules', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('hasClientSideFilters', () => {
+    describe('when alertingUIUseBackendFilters is disabled', () => {
+      testWithFeatureToggles({ disable: ['alertingUIUseBackendFilters'] });
+
+      it('should return false when no filters are applied', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({}))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for title-related filters (freeFormWords, ruleName)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu'] }))).toBe(true);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleName: 'alert' }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for ruleType filter', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Alerting }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for dashboardUid filter', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'test-dashboard' }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for groupName filter', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ groupName: 'test-group' }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for client-side only filters', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ namespace: 'production' }))).toBe(true);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }))).toBe(true);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=critical'] }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for backend-only filters (state, health, contactPoint)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ contactPoint: 'my-contact-point' }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when alertingUIUseBackendFilters is enabled', () => {
+      testWithFeatureToggles({ enable: ['alertingUIUseBackendFilters'] });
+
+      it('should return false when no filters are applied', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({}))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for title-related filters (handled by backend)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu'] }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleName: 'alert' }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for ruleType filter (handled by backend)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleType: PromRuleType.Alerting }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for dashboardUid filter (handled by backend)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ dashboardUid: 'test-dashboard' }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for groupName filter (handled by backend)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ groupName: 'test-group' }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+
+      it('should return true for client-side only filters', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ namespace: 'production' }))).toBe(true);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ dataSourceNames: ['prometheus'] }))).toBe(true);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ labels: ['severity=critical'] }))).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it('should return false for backend-only filters (state, health, contactPoint)', () => {
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleState: PromAlertingRuleState.Firing }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ ruleHealth: RuleHealth.Ok }))).toBe(false);
+        expect(hasClientSideFilters(getFilter({ contactPoint: 'my-contact-point' }))).toBe(false);
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d7d224047d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/grafanaFilter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+import { PromRuleDTO, PromRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { GrafanaPromRulesOptions } from '../../api/prometheusApi';
+import { shouldUseBackendFilters } from '../../featureToggles';
+import { RulesFilter } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
+
+import { buildTitleSearch, normalizeFilterState } from './filterNormalization';
+import {
+  GroupFilterConfig,
+  RuleFilterConfig,
+  dashboardUidFilter,
+  dataSourceNamesFilter,
+  freeFormFilter,
+  groupMatches,
+  groupNameFilter,
+  labelsFilter,
+  namespaceFilter,
+  pluginsFilter,
+  ruleMatches,
+  ruleNameFilter,
+  ruleTypeFilter,
+} from './filterPredicates';
+
+/**
+ * Determines if client-side filtering is needed for Grafana-managed rules.
+ */
+export function hasClientSideFilters(filterState: RulesFilter): boolean {
+  const { ruleFilterConfig, groupFilterConfig } = buildGrafanaFilterConfigs();
+
+  // Check each rule filter: if the config has a non-null handler AND the filter state has a value, we need client-side filtering
+  const hasActiveRuleFilters =
+    (ruleFilterConfig.freeFormWords !== null && filterState.freeFormWords.length > 0) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.ruleName !== null && Boolean(filterState.ruleName)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.ruleState !== null && Boolean(filterState.ruleState)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.ruleType !== null && Boolean(filterState.ruleType)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.dataSourceNames !== null && filterState.dataSourceNames.length > 0) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.labels !== null && filterState.labels.length > 0) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.ruleHealth !== null && Boolean(filterState.ruleHealth)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.dashboardUid !== null && Boolean(filterState.dashboardUid)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.plugins !== null && Boolean(filterState.plugins)) ||
+    (ruleFilterConfig.contactPoint !== null && Boolean(filterState.contactPoint));
+
+  // Check each group filter: if the config has a non-null handler AND the filter state has a value, we need client-side filtering
+  const hasActiveGroupFilters =
+    (groupFilterConfig.namespace !== null && Boolean(filterState.namespace)) ||
+    (groupFilterConfig.groupName !== null && Boolean(filterState.groupName));
+
+  return hasActiveRuleFilters || hasActiveGroupFilters;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds a combined filter configuration for Grafana-managed alert rules.
+ *
+ * Constructs both backend and frontend filter objects based on the provided filter state.
+ * The backend filter is used for server-side filtering when `shouldUseBackendFilters()` is enabled,
+ * while the frontend filter provides client-side matching functions for rules and groups.
+ */
+export function getGrafanaFilter(filterState: RulesFilter) {
+  const normalizedFilterState = normalizeFilterState(filterState);
+  const useBackendFilters = shouldUseBackendFilters();
+
+  // Build title search for backend filtering
+  const titleSearch = buildTitleSearch(normalizedFilterState);
+
+  const backendFilter: GrafanaPromRulesOptions = {
+    state: normalizedFilterState.ruleState ? [normalizedFilterState.ruleState] : [],
+    health: normalizedFilterState.ruleHealth ? [normalizedFilterState.ruleHealth] : [],
+    contactPoint: normalizedFilterState.contactPoint ?? undefined,
+    title: useBackendFilters ? titleSearch : undefined,
+    type: useBackendFilters ? normalizedFilterState.ruleType : undefined,
+    dashboardUid: useBackendFilters ? normalizedFilterState.dashboardUid : undefined,
+    searchGroupName: useBackendFilters ? normalizedFilterState.groupName : undefined,
+  };
+
+  const { ruleFilterConfig: grafanaFilterProcessingConfig, groupFilterConfig: grafanaGroupFilterConfig } =
+    buildGrafanaFilterConfigs();
+
+  return {
+    backendFilter,
+    frontendFilter: {
+      groupMatches: (group: PromRuleGroupDTO) => groupMatches(group, normalizedFilterState, grafanaGroupFilterConfig),
+      ruleMatches: (rule: PromRuleDTO) => ruleMatches(rule, normalizedFilterState, grafanaFilterProcessingConfig),
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds filter configurations for Grafana rules and groups.
+ *
+ * Determines which filters are applied on the backend vs. client-side based on
+ * the `shouldUseBackendFilters()` flag. When backend filtering is enabled, certain
+ * filters are set to null to prevent duplicate filtering.
+ */
+function buildGrafanaFilterConfigs() {
+  const useBackendFilters = shouldUseBackendFilters();
+
+  const ruleFilterConfig: RuleFilterConfig = {
+    // When backend filtering is enabled, these filters are handled by the backend
+    freeFormWords: useBackendFilters ? null : freeFormFilter,
+    ruleName: useBackendFilters ? null : ruleNameFilter,
+    ruleState: null,
+    ruleType: useBackendFilters ? null : ruleTypeFilter,
+    dataSourceNames: dataSourceNamesFilter,
+    labels: labelsFilter,
+    ruleHealth: null,
+    dashboardUid: useBackendFilters ? null : dashboardUidFilter,
+    plugins: pluginsFilter,
+    contactPoint: null,
+  };
+
+  const groupFilterConfig: GroupFilterConfig = {
+    namespace: namespaceFilter,
+    groupName: useBackendFilters ? null : groupNameFilter,
+  };
+
+  return { ruleFilterConfig, groupFilterConfig };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/useFilteredRulesIterator.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/useFilteredRulesIterator.test.ts
index 592485e211c..1b226d50c5b 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/useFilteredRulesIterator.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/rule-list/hooks/useFilteredRulesIterator.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 import { RuleSource } from '../../search/rulesSearchParser';
 import { getFilter } from '../../utils/search';
 
-import { buildTitleSearch } from './filters';
 import { hasClientSideFilters } from './useFilteredRulesIterator';
 
 describe('hasClientSideFilters', () => {
@@ -84,23 +83,3 @@ describe('hasClientSideFilters', () => {
     });
   });
 });
-
-describe('buildTitleSearch', () => {
-  it('returns undefined when no search terms are provided', () => {
-    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({}))).toBeUndefined();
-  });
-
-  it('returns the rule name when only a rule search is provided', () => {
-    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: 'cpu' }))).toBe('cpu');
-  });
-
-  it('returns joined free-form words when only text search is provided', () => {
-    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ freeFormWords: ['cpu', 'memory'] }))).toBe('cpu memory');
-  });
-
-  it('concatenates rule search and free-form text when both are provided', () => {
-    expect(buildTitleSearch(getFilter({ ruleName: 'cpu', freeFormWords: ['memory', 'latency'] }))).toBe(
-      'cpu memory latency'
-    );
-  });
-});