Algolia
Hosted search-as-a-service billed per search request and per stored record. Pay-as-you-go Grow plan; enterprise features need an Elevate contract.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- Build/Free plan with 10,000 search requests per month and 50,000 records.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.algolia.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | 1k additional records / month | 1k additional searches |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 |
| Grow | $0.4 | $0.5 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
Free
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included records (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional records / month
- $0
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional searches
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 50 records (thousands); ≤ 10 searches / month (thousands)
Grow
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included records (thousands)
- 100
- 1k additional records / month
- $0.4
- Included searches / month (thousands)
- 10
- 1k additional searches
- $0.5
Grow: 10,000 search requests and 100,000 records included each month, then $0.50 per 1,000 search requests and $0.40 per 1,000 records. With search-as-you-type, every keystroke can be a billable request. Grow Plus (AI ranking, synonyms and personalization features) has the same record price but $1.75 per 1,000 searches. NeuralSearch, SSO and the 99.999% SLA require Elevate (annual contract; volume discounts with annual commitment). Grow and Grow Plus can be hosted in the US, UK or EU West. Algolia was founded in Paris and is headquartered in San Francisco.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Algolia, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $41,650/yr · Vendr marketplace benchmark; median annual contract across 144 purchases; range $12,413-$260,594; buyers saved 23% on average
“Median buyer pays $41,650 per year Based on data from 144 purchases, with buyers saving 23% on average. Median: $41,650 $12,413 $260,594 Low High”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026 - $9,840/yr · Mid-size e-commerce retailer with ~400k product records; annualized from ~$820/month (records + search ops); search volume not stated
“For the outdoor gear client I mentioned: we went from ~$820/month on Algolia (records + search ops) to $58/month on Typesense Cloud for equivalent performance.”
Blog post, Jun 2026
Managed alternatives
At 1M records, 5M searches / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Algolia: $34,260/yr estimated.
- Bonsai: $600/yr estimated · $33,660/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes roughly 1 KB per record and checks document counts, not concurrency. Index overhead, peak traffic and availability can require a larger plan.
- Typesense Cloud: $864/yr estimated · $33,396/yr bill differenceModeled ratesSingle-node cluster with 1 KB records and modeled sizing. Production HA roughly triples cost; EU regions can cost more.
- Amazon OpenSearch Service: $1,063/yr estimated · $33,197/yr bill differenceModeled ratesSingle-node domain sized at 1 KB per record. Multi-zone availability, replicas and peak query load are not modeled.
- Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch): $2,520/yr estimated · $31,740/yr bill differenceModeled ratesUses published example deployments and assumes 1 KB records. Real query load and resource sizing can differ.
- Vespa Cloud: $8,340/yr estimated · $25,920/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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