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Algolia pricing and limits

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Hosted search and recommendations API billed by search request and by record, with typo tolerance, faceting and AI ranking built in.

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Entry paid planNo monthly fee. Grow starts at zero and bills $0.50 per additional 1,000 search requests beyond 10,000 a month, plus $0.40 per additional 1,000 records beyond 100,000. Grow Plus, which adds AI, charges $1.75 per additional 1,000 searches. No magnitude is recorded because a usage rate and a plan fee are not the same number.
Free tierYes
CategorySearch

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 8 criteria comparedSources last checked

Algolia pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
No monthly fee source ↗
Pricing model
Two meters at once: search requests and records, each with an included allowance and a per-1,000 overage source ↗
What the free plan includes
10,000 search requests a month, 50,000 records, 5,000 recommendation requests and 5,000 crawls, with no credit card required source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Algolia pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Search you do not want to operate. No monthly fee, a standing free plan at 10,000 searches and 50,000 records, and relevance tuning that works out of the box — you pay per search and per record instead of per server.

Consider something else if…

Traffic is the thing that grows. Beyond the free allowance it is $0.50 per additional 1,000 searches and $0.40 per additional 1,000 records, and $1.75 per 1,000 once you want the AI tier — a bill that rises with success, against three engines you can run yourself for the cost of operations.

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Algolia pricing

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Free tierYes
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  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “Get started building your best search experiences ever with access to some of our features to start for free. No credit card required.”

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What the free plan includes10,000 search requests a month, 50,000 records, 5,000 recommendation requests and 5,000 crawls, with no credit card required.
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  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “No credit card required. INCLUDES: 10K search requests/month 50K records included 5K recommendation requests/month 5K crawls/month”

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Entry paid planNo monthly fee. Grow starts at zero and bills $0.50 per additional 1,000 search requests beyond 10,000 a month, plus $0.40 per additional 1,000 records beyond 100,000. Grow Plus, which adds AI, charges $1.75 per additional 1,000 searches. No magnitude is recorded because a usage rate and a plan fee are not the same number.
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  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “Grow Keyword search Start for free 10K search requests /month included then $0.50 per additional 1K search requests 100K records included then $0.40 per additional 1K records”

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Pricing modelTwo meters at once: search requests and records, each with an included allowance and a per-1,000 overage. The AI tier changes the search rate and not the record rate.
Sources (1) →
  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “Grow Plus NEW Keyword search with AI capabilities Start for free 10K search requests /month included then $1.75 per additional 1K search req”

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Observability

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Self-hostableNot supported
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  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “Get started building your best search experiences ever with access to some of our features to start for free. No credit card required.”

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Vector

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Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Sold as a higher tier rather than a feature flag: Grow Plus is keyword search with AI capabilities, at $1.75 per additional 1,000 searches against Grow's $0.50.
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  • Algolia Pricing ↗

    “Grow Plus NEW Keyword search with AI capabilities Start for free 10K search requests /month included then $1.75 per additional 1K search req”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing · Report a correction

Compliance

2 criteria
SOC 2Algolia SOC 2 Type 2 Final Report 2026.05.12.pdf
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ISO 27001Algolia ISO 27001 27017 Certificate Award - 2.23.2026
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Algolia pricing questions

How much does Algolia cost?

No monthly fee. Grow starts at zero and bills $0.50 per additional 1,000 search requests beyond 10,000 a month, plus $0.40 per additional 1,000 records beyond 100,000. Grow Plus, which adds AI, charges $1.75 per additional 1,000 searches. No magnitude is recorded because a usage rate and a plan fee are not the same number.

Algolia Pricing · read

How does Algolia charge?

Two meters at once: search requests and records, each with an included allowance and a per-1,000 overage. The AI tier changes the search rate and not the record rate.

Algolia Pricing · read

Does Algolia have a free tier?

Yes. 10,000 search requests a month, 50,000 records, 5,000 recommendation requests and 5,000 crawls, with no credit card required.

Algolia Pricing · read

Can you self-host Algolia?

No.

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