Algolia pricing
Algolia pricing and what it adds up to
US$12,877 annual average reported for Algolia customers with 50 to 1,000 employees
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The plans
What Algolia charges
Algolia charges for usage and plan features, with search requests and stored records adding usage costs. Your bill also depends on plan limits, analytics history and, for Elevate, quoted usage and support requirements.
Grow
US$0.50 per additional thousand search requests
Grow includes ten thousand monthly search requests and one hundred thousand records, with extra records charged separately.
Grow Plus
US$1.75 per additional thousand search requests
Grow Plus includes ten thousand monthly search requests and one hundred thousand records, with extra records charged separately.
Elevate
Quoted privately
Elevate uses an annual contract with quoted usage and support requirements.
How the bill is built
Search requests
Grow includes ten thousand monthly search requests. After that allowance, each additional thousand costs US$0.50 on Grow or US$1.75 on Grow Plus. The charge changes with request volume.
Stored records
Grow and Grow Plus include one hundred thousand records. Each additional thousand records costs US$0.40. Your record count can therefore add to the usage charges on either plan.
Plan limits
Plan features differ as well as usage charges. Grow includes ten ranking rules per index, while Grow Plus includes ten thousand. The published plans also list thirty days of analytics retention for Grow and ninety days for Grow Plus.
Elevate contract
Elevate uses an annual contract. Its usage and support requirements are quoted, so the bill depends on the requirements agreed for your business.
A year of Algolia
What Algolia costs over a year
SpendHound reports a US$12,877 annual average for its Algolia cohort of businesses with 50 to 1,000 employees. That is not a verified New Zealand or Australian invoice, or an Algolia list price. Your own annual bill depends on search request volume, stored records, plan features and, for Elevate, quoted usage and support requirements.
Underneath the bill
What you are really paying for
Hosted search usage
Algolia operates the search service, and its usage charges rise with search requests and stored records. You are paying for a hosted service as well as the volume of catalogue activity and records it handles.
Plan feature limits
The plans set different limits for ranking rules. Grow includes ten rules per index, while Grow Plus includes ten thousand. The plan you choose also determines the listed period of analytics history, thirty or ninety days.
Analytics history
The published plans include different analytics retention periods. Grow lists thirty days and Grow Plus lists ninety days. If the history you need extends beyond the listed period, that is a plan feature to consider when weighing the cost.
The owned alternative
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Questions
Algolia pricing, answered
Does Algolia have a fixed monthly price for Grow? expand_more
The listed Grow charges specify usage rates, not a fixed monthly plan price. Grow includes ten thousand monthly search requests and one hundred thousand records. Each additional thousand search requests costs US$0.50, and each additional thousand records costs US$0.40.
How much could Algolia cost over a year? expand_more
SpendHound reports a US$12,877 annual average for its Algolia cohort of businesses with 50 to 1,000 employees. It is not a verified New Zealand or Australian invoice or a vendor list price. Your bill varies with usage, records and plan requirements.
What changes the cost between Grow and Grow Plus? expand_more
The extra search request charge is US$0.50 per additional thousand on Grow and US$1.75 on Grow Plus. Both list the same included request and record allowances, while ranking rules and analytics retention differ between the plans.
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