Hosted search with 10,000 search requests a month, 50,000 records and 1 GB of data in one application; no credit card required.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- search requests / month
- 10K
- records
- 50K
- Across all indices; maximum 10 KB per record.
- storage
- 1 GB
- Maximum data size per application (and per index); one application only.
- Recommend requests / month
- 5K
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Notice: Deletes free resources after 30 days without activity
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- You are asked to upgrade
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedThe free-plan terms let Algolia remove your data if the account stays inactive for more than 30 days (a right, not a fixed schedule; the clause sits in the Recommend paragraph).
- Data retention
- Free resources deleted after 30 days without activity
- Card at sign-up
- Not required
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- AllowedAlgolia names launching a startup and running a small online store as Free plan uses. At the usage limit Algolia may suspend the service or add Algolia attribution to results.
- Mainland China
- Partly reachableGreatFire rates algolia.net as mixed: https://algolia.net itself opens only sometimes, while the API hosts it tested (*-dsn.algolia.net and c1-hk-1.algolia.net) read accessible on their own pages. algolianet.com is all clear on few tests.
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Account
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- Correction
Better: Mainland China reachability corrected: not verified → partly reachable
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
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