Free hosted search for accepted public developer documentation and technical blogs: up to 5M records and 50M search requests a month, with an Algolia logo.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- records
- 5M
- Maximum 100 KB per record.
- search requests / month
- 50M
- resources crawled / month
- 5M
- storage
- 25 GB
- Per application (one application, up to 20 indices).
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
- Notice: Commercial use is restricted on the free plan
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
- The project is paused
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedAlgolia may remove your data if the account stays inactive for more than 30 days (a right, not a fixed schedule).
- Data retention
- Free resources deleted after 30 days without activity
- Card at sign-up
- Not documentedYou must apply and be accepted; domain ownership must be verified within 7 days of approval. Payment information is requested only for optional paid add-ons.
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- RestrictedOnly public developer documentation and technical blogs qualify; an Algolia logo linking to algolia.com must be shown in the search UI. Enrollment includes DocSearchMCP, which lets Algolia crawl and index your docs for AI tools. No support.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- 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
Worse: Behaviour at the limit corrected: requests refused → project paused
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- DocSearch