[iambateman]

We just jumped on with algolia and we love it (4 days in)

Trying to figure out if the new pricing model is going to skyrocket costs or not. FWIW we are on the old $29/mo plan for the moment.

But Algolia is incredible.

[dvdhnt]

For what it's worth, we do around ~5.1k queries on App Search and pay something like $200.

Looking at Algolia (which we didn't go with because it was too expensive), the cost would be about even right now ($1.50 premium * 6). However, that doesn't include the elastic or kibana instance we get at the moment.

Hopefully the cost doesn't grow too sharply.

[abri]

How come you're paying $200 for 5.1k queries on App Search? 5k doesn't seem like a big number so I imagine the lower tier plans/configs like the $20-30 plans should be enough right? Right now I have the lowest configuration and I pay $25/month.

[dvdhnt]

Woah. Err I don't handle billing but it looks like we got App Search through Elastic and it comes with the entire ELK stack behind it.

I know they are moving App Search to some kind of Elastic Enterprise service, perhaps we're dealing with that instead?

We use the analytics, clicks, and suggestion API's - idk if those are included at the base level or not.

[ykevinator]

I don't get why algolia exists and why people pay for it

[Znafon]

They have a useful list of feature that you can look at: https://www.algolia.com/products/search/

It's basically a service that you can use so users can search objects in your database, a bit like Google but just for your website or application.

[rvnx]

Isn't it exactly what a managed Elasticsearch does ?

[BrigadierG]

Yes but vastly faster, and requires less setup.

[scribu]

Where you using a different search solution previously? What was it?

[iambateman]

We were using Google Custom Search. So Algolia is a big upgrade.