About
Algolia is an AI search and retrieval platform that helps businesses deliver fast, relevant discovery experiences across websites, apps, and internal tools.
It combines keyword search, AI-powered retrieval, recommendations, personalization, analytics, and browse experiences to support product discovery, documentation search, and other customer-facing use cases. The platform also includes developer tools, integrations, data enrichment and transformation capabilities, and infrastructure features designed to help teams launch and scale search experiences efficiently.
- AI search and retrieval for product discovery, site search, and documentation search
- Generative and agentic AI experiences built on retrieval-augmented generation
- Recommendations, personalization, analytics, and merchandising capabilities
- Developer APIs, UI components, integrations, and data preparation tools
- Global infrastructure and security features for production deployments
Free Tier Value
Algolia’s pricing page shows a free-to-start Grow plan with 10,000 search requests/month and 100,000 records included, then $0.50 per additional 1K search requests and $0.40 per additional 1K records. Using the conservative FTV rule for a capped free tier, the recurring value is anchored to the cheapest paid plan’s overage rate for the free quota; the clearest directly monetized included quota is search requests, yielding about $0.50/month for the included 10K requests. No explicit no-credit-card claim appears on the page, and signup is via dashboard registration, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- 10,000 search requests per month included.
- 100,000 records included.
- 10,000 recommend requests per month included.
- 10,000 crawls per month included.
- 1 free Guide included.
- 30 days of analytics retention included.
- Keyword Search + Browse included.
- Query suggestions included.
- Rules: 10 per index included.
- Manual synonyms included.
- Data transformation included.
- Third-party integrations and connectors included.
- US, UK, and EU hosting locations included.
- 1 application included.
- Up to 50 indices per application included.
- 100GB index size limit.
- 100GB maximum application size.
- Average 10KB per record, maximum 100KB per record.
See Algolia pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Grow
- search requests/month included
- 10,000
- records included
- 100,000
- additional search requests
- $0.50 per 1K
- additional records
- $0.40 per 1K
- applications
- 1
- indices per application
- 50
- Keyword Search + Browse
- Query suggestions
- Rules: 10/index
- Manual synonyms
- Data transformation
- 30 days analytics retention
- Third party integrations + connectors
- US, UK, EU hosting locations
Grow Plus
- search requests/month included
- 10,000
- records included
- 100,000
- additional search requests
- $1.75 per 1K
- additional records
- $0.40 per 1K
- applications
- 1
- indices per application
- 50
- Keyword search with AI capabilities
- Rules: 10,000/index
- AI Synonyms
- AI Ranking
- Advanced Personalization
- Query Categorization
- Collections
- 90 days analytics retention
Elevate
- applications
- 10
- indices per application
- 1000
- index size limit
- 100GB
- maximum application size
- 100GB
- Enterprise-scale AI Search
- Volume-based discounts
- Custom search requests and records
- NeuralSearch
- AI Collections
- Smart Groups
- Real-time personalization
- 99.999% availability
Pricing extracted from Algolia's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
