Who qualifies?
To qualify for an Algolia for Open Source (AOS) discount, a project must fall into one of the following categories.
Products overview
Pricing
Pricing that scales with the value of your business
Search API
Powerful, hosted search API to create fast and relevant search
Analytics
Understand your users, uncover hidden opportunities
Rules
Optimize results ranking for your users’ queries
A/B Testing
Uncover the best performing relevance strategies
InstantSearch
A set of UI components to design the perfect experience
Personalization
Tailor the Search and Discovery to your users
Crawler
Automatically extract and enrich your website content
Visual Editor
Get control over Search and Discovery to reflect your business goals
What’s new
What’s new in Algolia Fall ‘20
Algolia AI
A family of AI algorithms that optimize every dimension of Search and Discovery
Answers for Publishers
Natural language search to find answers deep within content
Answers for Support
ML-powered Q&A search to reduce support costs
Understand
Natural language understanding to get customers from search to conversion faster
Dynamic Synonym Suggestions
AI generated synonyms to get users to relevant results no matter the words they use
Dynamic Re-ranking
Optimizes the ranking of results for each search for higher conversion rate
Solutions overview
Site Search
Build frictionless experiences on any device
Voice Search
Search without the box
Geo Search
Leverage a location-based Search and Discovery
Mobile Search
Accelerate engagement and conversion on mobile
Enterprise overview
Infrastructure
Exceeding the highest standards
Security & Compliance
You can trust us with your data
Algolia relies heavily on open source software and benefits from the many types of contributions that individuals make to the global developer community. We want to give something back by making Algolia available for free or at a low cost to qualifying open source projects. We also want to support non-profit organizations who are helping make the world a better place.
To qualify for an Algolia for Open Source (AOS) discount, a project must fall into one of the following categories.
Libraries, frameworks, and plugins that developers use to build applications. Algolia can be used to make documentation searchable or to power runtime or auxiliary features. Projects in this category must be publicly available with a valid Open Source license.
Apps that make content discoverable and searchable in a way that is useful to the developer community. This includes educational projects and resources that help people learn how to code.
Legally-recognized non-profit and non-governmental organizations who can use search to further their mission and improve the lives of the people they serve.
In addition to fitting into one of the above categories, eligible AOS projects must satisfy these criteria:
The project cannot be used to promote a product or service; it has to provide something of value to the community at no cost. Applications for non-commercial projects backed by commercial entities will be reviewed on a case-by-base basis.
The project must be publicly usable and, if applicable, include documentation or instructions on how the community can use it.
High records or search requests Algolia’s Free plan is at no charge for up to 10 units per month. If this is all you require, then you don’t need to apply for an AOS plan
If you have a qualifying project, we’d love to hear from you. Please complete the following form. Your request will be reviewed (usually within 24-48 hours) and you’ll receive an email containing more information.
Standard PAYG plan and to include 200 units for free which translates to 200,000 records and 200,000 search requests (and up to 2,000,000 indexing operations) per month (a $180/month value).
In exchange for using Algolia for free, we ask that you place a small "Search by Algolia" logo in your search results or on your site where people can see it. The logo should link to https://algolia.com. If this is not possible or ideal, there are other ways to fulfill this requirement that we're happy to discuss with you.
Definitely! Once it's ready to share, we'll be happy to help you tell the story about your project and how you're using search. We love to publish the stories of our customers and community members on our Algolia Stories Medium publication and encourage everyone to post their projects on our forum's Show & Tell category.
We ask that you notify us of any changes to the status of your project - whether it has been terminated, acquired, or its nature changed to something commercial. If the new status of your project is not eligible for the AOS plan, we will work with you to downgrade the account in a timely manner that respects the timeline of your project.
Please send us an email to community@algolia.com. We'll be happy to answer any questions that you have about eligibility, limits, application status and anything else that's on your mind.