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  "slug": "algolia",
  "name": "Algolia",
  "url": "https://www.algolia.com",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Hosted keyword search API",
  "price": "Free: 10K search requests/mo + 50K records. Grow: $0.50 per 1K searches + $0.40 per 1K records (10K searches / 100K records included). Grow Plus $1.75 per 1K searches. Elevate with NeuralSearch is custom.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "The incumbent hosted search-as-a-service: you push records to an index over an API and get typo-tolerant, sub-50ms keyword search with faceting, synonyms and analytics. Free tier covers 10,000 search requests and 50,000 records per month. Not self-hostable — it is closed SaaS.",
  "why": "InstantSearch UI widgets for React, Vue and vanilla JS mean a working search box in an afternoon, and <b>DocSearch is free for open-source docs sites</b>. Models know its API surface cold.",
  "warn": "Billing is per search <b>request</b>, not per user — an as-you-type box fires a request per keystroke unless you debounce. Costs scale with traffic, fast.",
  "install": "npm i algoliasearch react-instantsearch",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.algolia.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}