Algolia Pricing Overview

What I like most about Algolia is how fast and accurate the search is. Even if users make spelling mistakes, it still shows the right results. The setup was easy, especially with React. We were able to integrate it quickly without any big issues. The filters and ranking options are very helpful to show exactly what we want to highlight in the results. Also, the dashboard gives a clear view of what people are searching for. Overall, it saves a lot of time and improves the user experience on our site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I don’t like much is the pricing. It can get expensive if your site grows or you have a lot of users. Also, some useful features like A/B testing or advanced personalization are not included in the basic plan. For new or small teams, this could be a challenge. And sometimes, understanding how to customize the ranking rules takes time if you're not very technical. 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.