Algolia Pricing

Algolia pricing starts free with 10K search requests/month; Grow plan adds $0.50 per 1K requests; Grow Plus at $1.75 per 1K requests; Elevate is enterprise custom pricing.

Yes — Algolia publishes a free tier. 10K search requests/month, 1M records, 10K AI Recommendation requests/month, 10K crawls/month.

Yes — Algolia's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.

xpay scored Algolia as human-assisted: some plans are self-serve, others require sales contact. Algolia publishes a pricing page with 4 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. All advertised paths route to a sales conversation rather than a self-serve checkout. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. A free or freemium tier is offered. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.

In the Search APIs category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Algolia to compare with 3 nearest peers.