Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search

Love the change. I really like the "annual commitments" pricing - I love it when I can pre-reserve a certain amount of performance and get a discount for it.

Re: Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search

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Post by ykevinator » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:02 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #3

We just jumped on with algolia and we love it (4 days in) Trying to figure out if the new pricing model is going to skyrocket costs or not. FWIW we are on the old $29/mo plan for the moment. But Algolia is incredible.

I don't get why algolia exists and why people pay for it

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Post by atonse » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

We've loved algolia for the 2-3 sites we've used it for. The speed is unbeatable.

I wish we could've used it for one of our HIPAA use cases (patient data). I could've rolled out powerful search for an internal site in a day, but instead I'm having to build in postgres full text search and looking longingly at them.

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:38 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #6

We've loved algolia for the 2-3 sites we've used it for. The speed is unbeatable. I wish we could've used it for one of our HIPAA use cases (patient data). I could've rolled out powerful search for an internal site in a day, but instead I'm having to build in postgres full text search and looking longingly at them.

No hosted version for businesses who are running in a regulated environment?

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Post by scribu » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:42 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #3

We just jumped on with algolia and we love it (4 days in) Trying to figure out if the new pricing model is going to skyrocket costs or not. FWIW we are on the old $29/mo plan for the moment. But Algolia is incredible.

Where you using a different search solution previously? What was it?

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Post by dvdhnt » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #3

We just jumped on with algolia and we love it (4 days in) Trying to figure out if the new pricing model is going to skyrocket costs or not. FWIW we are on the old $29/mo plan for the moment. But Algolia is incredible.

For what it's worth, we do around ~5.1k queries on App Search and pay something like $200.

Looking at Algolia (which we didn't go with because it was too expensive), the cost would be about even right now ($1.50 premium * 6). However, that doesn't include the elastic or kibana instance we get at the moment.

Hopefully the cost doesn't grow too sharply.

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Post by searchableguy » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #7

atonse wrote: post #6

We've loved algolia for the 2-3 sites we've used it for. The speed is unbeatable. I wish we could've used it for one of our HIPAA use cases (patient data). I could've rolled out powerful search for an internal site in a day, but instead I'm having to build in postgres full text search and looking longingly at them.

No hosted version for businesses who are running in a regulated environment?

Is elastic search not an option? I read they are compliant with hippa and other laws.

There are many open source alternatives to algolia too.

I am using meilli search - https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch atm. It works pretty well without taking huge resources.

Sonic is interesting too if you want something minimal - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic