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www.algolia.com/PaaSstorage/algoliaJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 50,000 records on the Free/Build plan (100K on the paid Grow tier); 10,000 search requests/month
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 50,000 records on the Free/Build plan (100K on the paid Grow tier); 10,000 search requests/month unit objects; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Search requests are the meter, not bytes. 10,000 search requests/month is ~333/day — the most op-limited of the storage providers compared. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, cli rest |
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| Tooling | REST API, official SDKs for ~15 languages, algolia CLI, InstantSearch widgets; records are JSON only |
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| Composes with | 50K records x ~10 KB average = ~500 MB of usable payload per app. Several free apps would need several accounts. Record-size guidance is 'Avg 10KB/Record max 100KB', so the absolute ceiling is 50K x 100 KB = 5 GB, and that requires exceeding the size guidance. |
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| Reliability | Extremely reliable CDN-backed search, but it is a search index, not a store: records are tokenized and stored in an inverted index, so storing base64 blobs both inflates size ~33% and destroys index performance. Not usable as blob storage in practice. |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.algolia.com/pricing/ | 'Free ... 50K records included'; '100K records included then $0.40 per additional 1K records' (Grow); '10K search requests/month'; 'Avg 10KB/Record max 100KB' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "50,000 records on the Free/Build plan (100K on the paid Grow tier); 10,000 search requests/month","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read