Algolia service limits

Algolia sets some upper limits to its services to ensure stability and performance for all users. The following values apply to all Algolia pricing plans, with certain exceptions for pay as you go plans. For more information, contact the Algolia support team.

* Committed subscribers or as otherwise provided in your “Service Order”.

Application, Record, and Index limits

Limit	Value
Application size *	100 GB (or 1 GB for the Build plan)
Index size *	100 GB (or 1 GB for the Build plan)
Indexing operations	Depends on your plan and usage.
Indexing rate	10,000 indexing operations per Unit (as applicable)
Indexing request body size	1 GB per batch
Number of Indices per Application	1,000 (Premium), 50 (Grow), or 10 (Build)
Number of custom character normalizations	10
Pending requests	5,000
Record size *	10 KB to 100 KB—based on your plan (10 KB maximum for the Build plan)
Search request body size	50 MB per request
Sort criterion string length	First 50 bytes (50 characters for ASCII text)
Synonyms per Index	10,000 (or 1,000 for the Build plan)
Throttling limit	100 pending requests
Virtual replicas per Index	20

Limit	Value
Conditions per rule	25
Filter score	65,535
Maximum ratio of unique Facet-Value pairs per Record per Index	0.1
Number of Filters	1,000
Promoted items per promote group	100
Promoted items per rule	300
Rule consequence size	100 KiB
Size of each query parameters in the consequence	16 KiB
Values per Facet per Search query	1,000
Re-ordered facets per query	20
Re-ordered facet values per query	20
Maximum number of queries with precomputed facet ordering	100,000

Search user interface limits

Limit	Value
Pagination	20,000
Query Suggestions	100
Query size	512 bytes

Insights and analytics limits

Limit	Value
Analytics API calls	100 API calls per minute per app
Tag size	100 characters
Tags processed per Index	1,750 unique tag combinations every 5 minutes
Top searches	1,000

Security limits

Limit	Value
Number of API keys	5,000

Connectors limits

Limit	Value
Maximum number of authentications per appID	200
Maximum number of sources per appID	100
Maximum number of destinations per appID	500
Maximum number of tasks bound to a single source per appID	10
Push endpoint maximum payload size	5 MB per API call
Push endpoint maximum watch duration	3 minutes
Maximum file size for a JSON connector	1 GB
Maximum number of rows in file for a JSON connector	1,000,000
Maximum file size for a CSV connector	1 GB
Maximum number of rows in file for a CSV connector	1,000,000

Rate limits for connectors API	Value
Push endpoint API (/1/push)	2000 calls per minute per IP
Observability API (/1/runs)	2000 calls per minute per IP
Run task endpoint (/1/tasks/:taskID/run)	10 calls per 10 minute per taskID
All other endpoints	200 calls per minute per IP

Data transformation and Fetch limits

Limit	Value
Data transformation code size	32 kB
Data transformation runtime	1 second per transformation
Data transformation memory	100 kB per request
Number of transformations per Application	5 million per month
Fetch enrichment requests to the Search API	Up to 1 million Fetch requests per Application per month, as part the 5 million transformations per Application per month limit.
Fetch timeout	30 seconds per Record
Fetch response size	128 kB

Collections limits

Limit	Value
Number of collections per index	500 (Premium plan) or 1,000 (Elevate plan)
Number of conditions per collection	50
Number of manually selected items per collection	10,000
ObjectID size (manually selected items)	200 characters

Smart Groups and Composition API

Limit	Value
Number of groups per curated query	3
Number of records per group	50
Highest start position of each group	100
Number of compositions per application	100
Number of composition rules per composition	200
Number of disjunctive facets in a single request	20
Number of hits per page	1000

DocSearch plan limits

Limit	Value
Application size	25 GB
Index size	25 GB
Record size	100 kB
Number of indices per application	20
Queries per second	3
Maximum number of team members	10

Generative Experience Guides limits

Limit	Value
Maximum number of Guides per Index	1,000
Maximum size per Guide	100 kB
Maximum input tokens per generation (based on third-party LLM OpenAI calculation)	50,000
Maximum output tokens per generation (based on third-party LLM OpenAI calculation)	2,000

Agent Studio limits

Limit	Value
Maximum number of conversations retained	100,000
Number of completions per minute	3,000
Maximum retention policy	90 days
Maximum number of agents per app	500

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Algolia service limits

Application, Record, and Index limits

Filters, Facets, and Rules limits

Search user interface limits

Insights and analytics limits

Security limits

Connectors limits

Data transformation and Fetch limits

Collections limits

Smart Groups and Composition API

DocSearch plan limits

Generative Experience Guides limits

Agent Studio limits

​Application, Record, and Index limits

​Filters, Facets, and Rules limits

​Search user interface limits

​Insights and analytics limits

​Security limits

​Connectors limits

​Data transformation and Fetch limits

​Collections limits

​Smart Groups and Composition API

​DocSearch plan limits

​Generative Experience Guides limits

​Agent Studio limits

Application, Record, and Index limits

Filters, Facets, and Rules limits

Search user interface limits

Insights and analytics limits

Security limits

Connectors limits

Data transformation and Fetch limits

Collections limits

Smart Groups and Composition API

DocSearch plan limits

Generative Experience Guides limits

Agent Studio limits