Algolia Pricing Overview
Algolia at a glance
Pay as you go, scale instantly, or upgrade anytime for advanced features and AI capabilities.
| Name | Price | Features |
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| Build | Free10000 search requests Per Month | Start for free - no card details needed
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| Grow | Pay As You Go10000 search request Per Month | Scale search flexibly in line with your needs
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| Premium | Enhance your search experience with AI features
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| Elevate | Grow further, get full AI offering
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| Algolia Recommend | Flexible, hosted recommendation API with advanced programmatic control.
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Algolia Pricing Reviews
Algolia is a highly scalable search solution that integrates seamlessly with other composable technologies. It allows for effective collaboration between product, marketing, and engineering teams, streamlining the process of managing search ranking strategies. I’ve found their OOTB tools for A/B testing, search ranking management, and front-end components to be incredibly valuable in reducing development time while improving search performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Understanding Algolia’s pricing and how costs scale can be a challenge at times. The cost structure isn’t always immediately clear, which makes it harder to forecast as projects grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a search tool and we haven't experienced any downtime, though hard to say if it's that much better than its competitors. We were attracted by its Startup Program, but that hasn't delivered for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia markets its startup program as $10,000 in Free Search & Discovery Usage, which is super attractive for pre-revenue startups and puts it ahead of its competitors. HOWEVER, what they don't tell you up front is that as soon as you're accepted into the startup program, even if it's months before you launch, the clock starts on that offer, so in practice, you really won't get $10K in value. What the startup program looked like in practice for us--we set up algolia summer 2024 as we were building our product. We launched Jan 2025, 6 months into Algolia's startup program. We've only used ~$300 in credits, yet we will lose the rest of the supposed $10K in credits next month because they only give you 1 year to use the $10K, regardless of when you actually go live. As a small, pre-revenue startup, we're now locked in to paying Algolia's expensive rates until we have the engineering bandwidth to switch, which we definitely will be switching, but I wish we had known up front because we would not have gone with Algolia and invested the time to set it up in the first place. We tried contacting Algolia to explain our situation, and they said they couldn't do anything, so I'm writing this review so more startups can be aware and not make the same mistake we did! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
