Algolia service limits
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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 |
| Synonyms per Index |
10,000 (or 1,000 for the Build plan) |
| Throttling limit |
100 pending requests |
| Virtual replicas per Index |
20 |
Filters, Facets, and Rules limits
| 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 |
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 |
Data transformation and Fetch limits
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 |
15 seconds per Record |
| Fetch response size |
128 kB |
Collections limits
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of collections |
25 collections per index |
| Number of records |
1,000 manually selected items in a collection |
| ObjectID size (manually selected items) |
40 characters per objectID |
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 |
