Algolia for Vercel

Add Algolia to your Vercel projects with the native integration on the Vercel Marketplace. Install it from the Vercel dashboard to provision a fully configured Algolia application, without a separate Algolia sign-up. Your Algolia credentials are injected into your project as environment variables, and you manage billing through your existing Vercel account.

This integration provisions your Algolia application and credentials. It doesn’t index your content. You can populate your indices with any indexing method: API clients, the CLI, connectors, or the Algolia Crawler. Enabling the Crawler during installation is just one optional shortcut.

Get the integration

Install the Algolia integration from the Vercel Marketplace.

Starter app

Deploy a starter app preconfigured to work with the Vercel integration.

Install the integration

Open the Algolia integration on the Vercel Marketplace and click Install.
Select the region where you want to host your Algolia application.
Optional: enable the Algolia Crawler and select the Vercel domain you want to index. This approves your domain for crawling. You still need to configure and run the crawler yourself from the Algolia Crawler dashboard.
Choose your plan: Build, Grow, or Grow Plus.
Name your Algolia application and confirm. Vercel provisions your Algolia application automatically.

Connect your project

After the integration is installed, your Algolia application ID and API keys are available as environment variables in the Vercel projects you connect to the integration:

ALGOLIA_APP_ID
ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY
ALGOLIA_WRITE_API_KEY, for server-side use only

In a Next.js app, expose the application ID and search API key to the browser by adding them manually with the NEXT_PUBLIC_ prefix, for example NEXT_PUBLIC_ALGOLIA_APP_ID.

Connect the integration to the Vercel projects that need search.
Redeploy each connected project so it picks up the environment variables.
Use the injected credentials to build your search experience, for example with InstantSearch or SiteSearch.

You can open the Algolia dashboard from the Vercel dashboard at any time to manage your indices and settings.

Run the starter app locally

The starter app is a Next.js example that pulls its Algolia credentials from your linked Vercel project. For the latest instructions, see the project README.

git clone https://github.com/algolia/algolia-search-starter
cd algolia-search-starter
npm install
npx vercel link
npx vercel env pull .env.local
npm run seed
npm run dev

Next steps

Last modified on July 14, 2026

Get the integration

Starter app

​Install the integration

​Connect your project

​Run the starter app locally

​Next steps

Install the integration

Connect your project

Run the starter app locally

Next steps