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This is a huge increase in pricing for all our customers using Algolia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200620142025/https://www.algolia.com/pricing/ https://web

This is a huge increase in pricing for all our customers using Algolia. https://web.archive.org/web/20200620142025/https://www.algolia.com/pricing/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200620142025/https://www.algol... The previous Starter tier pricing was a lot cheaper. Most important point to note is that additional searches were closer to 10k/$1 vs the proposed 1000 (additional 100k operations: $10/month). Yes, these were 'operations' not searches' but the mapping between operations vs searches doesn't appear to be anywhere near 10-1.

dawnerd 6y ago
I see it like they're chasing the lower end of the market like single dev projects that don't want to spend much - which I guess makes sense. But for us this definitely would be a lot more expensive.
- arichard123 6y ago
  Well, if so they've failed in my case. I've got a customer doing £1m annual turnover on e-commerce, and we were about to start an integration with Algolia. The new pricing has stopped that from going ahead. I've been asked to find an alternative.
  - mkcg 6y ago
    What is your stack ? I made a simple Proof-of-concept of a PHP backend based on Redisearch compatible with the Instantsearch.js library. You can take a look at it here : https://github.com/MKCG/algolia-on-redisearch/tree/master/api https://github.com/MKCG/algolia-on-redisearch/tree/master/ap... With the Covid crisis we were no longer able to pay 3K per month for a basic search engine and now we are using a solution based on this on production (> 30M search/month).
jlemoine 6y ago
This is not the case, the price of unit decrease with volume and you can have a big discount if you want to commit to a yearly (similar to AWS/GCP/Azure)
- dubcanada 6y ago
  I fail to see where you provided him wrong, based on my math and the calculator in the backend. The existing $29 is roughly equal to $240 on the new plan 250,000 operations vs 250,000 searches. Obviously operations include adding/updating/deleting data. But if you don't do any of that it's basically a different of $220. If you do some operations, say half of them are operations you are looking at $150~ vs $29.

dawnerd 6y ago

I see it like they're chasing the lower end of the market like single dev projects that don't want to spend much - which I guess makes sense. But for us this definitely would be a lot more expensive.

arichard123 6y ago
Well, if so they've failed in my case. I've got a customer doing £1m annual turnover on e-commerce, and we were about to start an integration with Algolia. The new pricing has stopped that from going ahead. I've been asked to find an alternative.
- mkcg 6y ago
  What is your stack ? I made a simple Proof-of-concept of a PHP backend based on Redisearch compatible with the Instantsearch.js library. You can take a look at it here : https://github.com/MKCG/algolia-on-redisearch/tree/master/api https://github.com/MKCG/algolia-on-redisearch/tree/master/ap... With the Covid crisis we were no longer able to pay 3K per month for a basic search engine and now we are using a solution based on this on production (> 30M search/month).

jlemoine 6y ago

This is not the case, the price of unit decrease with volume and you can have a big discount if you want to commit to a yearly (similar to AWS/GCP/Azure)

dubcanada 6y ago
I fail to see where you provided him wrong, based on my math and the calculator in the backend. The existing $29 is roughly equal to $240 on the new plan 250,000 operations vs 250,000 searches. Obviously operations include adding/updating/deleting data. But if you don't do any of that it's basically a different of $220. If you do some operations, say half of them are operations you are looking at $150~ vs $29.