Algolia

Algolia is a hosted search and retrieval platform for building search, recommendation and discovery experiences inside websites and applications. The vendor now describes it as a unified AI search platform that powers agentic, generative and traditional search from one index, so that the same product data or content can serve a keyword search box, a conversational assistant and a retrieval augmented generation pipeline. It is used by ecommerce, software and knowledge management teams that need fast, relevant results without running search infrastructure themselves. Capabilities that matter include an AI Mode search bar that interprets natural language intent, generative AI and RAG grounded in the customer's own verified data, Agent Studio for conversational shopping experiences, merchandising tools for adjusting ranking and visibility without engineering work, NeuralSearch for semantic retrieval, personalization of visitor journeys, and AI Ranking that keeps learning from conversion outcomes. Pricing is published in four tiers. Free includes 10,000 search requests per month, 100,000 records, 5,000 recommendation requests and 5,000 crawls per month. Grow is billed monthly with no contract and includes 10,000 search requests per month, then $0.50 per additional 1,000, and 100,000 records, then $0.40 per additional 1,000. Grow Plus has the same record pricing, charges $1.75 per additional 1,000 search requests, and adds AI Ranking, Advanced Personalization and 10,000 rules per index. Elevate is quote based with volume discounts, custom search request and record volumes, NeuralSearch, AI Collections and 99.99 percent availability.