How much does Algolia cost?
PriceNot publishedAlgolia asks you to contact sales.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.algolia.com/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Grow and Grow Plus monthly with no contract; Elevate requires annual contract
- Free plan. Free plan with 10K search requests/month, 50K records, 5K recommendation requests/month and 5K crawls/month; no credit card required. Upgrade to Grow or Grow Plus for higher limits.
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Usage beyond included amounts is billed per additional 1K requests or records
- Going over the Grow allowance costs $0.50 per per 1k search requests. Included: 10000 search requests.
- Their pages disagree: Free tier recordsincluded. "50K records included" vs "100K records included then $0.40 per additional 1K records"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start for free, Build for free, Get started, Get a demo
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup for Free, Grow and Grow Plus "Start for free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Elevate requires contacting sales and an annual contract "Elevate requires an annual contract."
- Support
- Support plans from community access to 24/7 enterprise-grade response times "Multiple support levels, from community access to 24/7 enterprise-grade response times."
What Algolia does
Algolia provides a hosted search platform with keyword and AI search, recommendations, personalization, merchandising, a crawler, and Agent Studio for building AI agents. It has a free plan, monthly pay-as-you-go plans, and an annual-contract Elevate plan.
- Good for
- Ecommerce and other teams that want to add search, recommendations and AI assistants to their own site or app, from startups to enterprises.
- Channels
- Website search, Mobile apps, Ecommerce platforms, Documentation search, MCP server
- Main product
- Algolia AI Search & Retrieval platform (Search, Recommendations, Agent Studio, Generative Experiences)
- Also includes
- Keyword search and Browse, NeuralSearch (Elevate), Recommendations, Personalization, Merchandising Studio, Agent Studio
- Connects to
- Adobe, BigCommerce, Commercetools, Supabase, Shopify, Salesforce, Segment, Google Tag Manager
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Cited AI answersNot stated
- Connectors to work apps
Third party integrations + connectors
- Permission-aware resultsNot stated
- Live web searchNot stated
- Agents and workflows
Create, test, and deploy AI agents, fast.
- Search API access
Our Recommend API will enable you to refine your users’ needs
- SSO and SOC 2
Access to SSO and enhanced SLA
- No training on your dataNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI search engines. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II report available | "Our annual SOC 2 Type II report is now available in our Trust Center."security |
| GDPR | GDPR listed as compliance | "GDPR"security |
| CCPA | CCPA compliant | "CCPA"security |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001:2022 | "ISO 27001:2022"security |
| Single sign-on | Elevate | "Access to SSO and enhanced SLA"pricing |
| Trust center | Algolia's Trust Center | "Welcome to our Trust Center."security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 10000 search requests | – | "10K search requests/month" |
| Grow/ month | $0 | – | 10000 search requests | $0.50/per 1k search requests | "10K search requests /month included then $0.50 per additional 1K search requests" |
| Grow Plus/ month | $0 | – | 10000 search requests | $1.75/per 1k search requests | "10K search requests /month included then $1.75 per additional 1K search requests" |
| Elevate | Quote | – | – | – | "Custom search requests and records" |
Their pages disagree: Free tier recordsincluded"50K records included" vs "100K records included then $0.40 per additional 1K records"
Free plan: Free plan with 10K search requests/month, 50K records, 5K recommendation requests/month and 5K crawls/month; no credit card required. Upgrade to Grow or Grow Plus for higher limits.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Usage beyond included amounts is billed per additional 1K requests or records "You’ll only be billed for usage which exceeds each product’s free tier, and only if you choose to use them."
- Contract
- Grow and Grow Plus monthly with no contract; Elevate requires annual contract "Grow and Grow Plus plans are billed monthly with no contract required."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Service Orders renew for successive terms unless 30 days' notice of nonrenewal "Service Orders shall renew for successive terms, unless either party gives the other at least thirty (30) days’ notice of nonrenewal at the end of the applicable term."
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Algolia, Inc. (US); Algolia SAS (Europe)
- Address
- 3790 El Camino Real, Unit 518, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
- Online since
- Apr 22, 2012 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "More than 18,000 customers across 150+ countries" their claim
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Questions
Is Algolia free?
Yes. Free plan with 10K search requests/month, 50K records, 5K recommendation requests/month and 5K crawls/month; no credit card required. Upgrade to Grow or Grow Plus for higher limits.