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.
Add capabilities à la carte. None of them are gated to higher tiers.
$29 / mo per 100k pages. Sitemap-first, polite, JS-render toggle. Drives our DocSearch story.
$49 / mo. Collaborative-filter "people also viewed / bought" widget. Algolia charges 2× for theirs.
$99 / mo. Segment-aware boosts via filter_weight. Lands Q3 — beta sign-ups open.
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 included | Add-on | Self-managed | |
| Postgres CDC | Logstash glue |
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