Pricing

Pay for results, not for seats.

Free forever to evaluate. Linear pricing for production. Every tier includes hybrid search, vectors, multi-tenancy and the full SDK — we don't charge extra to unlock features you should have on day one.

Free
$0/mo
  • 100k searches / mo
  • 100k records · 50k vectors
  • 3 indexes · 1 project
  • Community Slack
  • "Powered by AsterSearch" widget
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Starter
$39/mo
  • 500k searches / mo
  • 500k records · 250k vectors
  • 10 indexes
  • Unbranded widgets
  • A/B testing · email support
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Scale
$899/mo
  • 50M searches / mo
  • 20M records · 10M vectors
  • SSO (SAML / OIDC)
  • 1-year audit log
  • Custom domains · 99.95% SLA
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Enterprise
Custom from $3k
  • Metered usage
  • Dedicated cluster · BYOC
  • SAML · customer-managed keys
  • Contractual SLA + DPA
  • Solutions engineer assigned
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Add-ons

Pay only for what you actually use.

Add capabilities à la carte. None of them are gated to higher tiers.

Web Crawler

$29 / mo per 100k pages. Sitemap-first, polite, JS-render toggle. Drives our DocSearch story.

Recommendations

$49 / mo. Collaborative-filter "people also viewed / bought" widget. Algolia charges 2× for theirs.

Personalization

$99 / mo. Segment-aware boosts via filter_weight. Lands Q3 — beta sign-ups open.

How we compare

Same workload, ~5–10× less.

Numbers below assume a typical e-commerce profile: 1M records, ~2M searches/mo, including faceting and synonyms. Algolia pricing taken from their public Build plan; Elastic Cloud from a comparable 3-zone Standard deployment.

Workload Algolia Build Elastic Cloud AsterSearch Growth
500k searches / mo~$250~$210$39
2M searches / mo~$1,000~$210$199
10M searches / mo~$5,000~$420$199
Vector / hybrid includedAdd-onSelf-managed
Postgres CDCLogstash glue

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