Algolia is a hosted search engine your team integrates through its API and UI libraries, on plans billed by usage. Opensolr gives you the whole site search on Apache Solr, from reading your pages to the search page and the chat bot, for one plan price.
What each monthly bill follows. Algolia’s pay-as-you-go plans count search requests and records. An Opensolr plan has one price, however many searches it serves.
01 · Side by side
02 · Also part of Opensolr site search
AI Hints, AI Reader, the chat bot, search by image, text read from scans, facets, Query Elevation, Search Tuning and search analytics. One page each: Enterprise Site Search, all in one.
03 · When Algolia fits
Your developers want a hosted engine to program against and plan to build the search interface themselves.
Try it on your own data. Create a free account, see the plans on Pricing, or watch it work first: live demos and RAG in 60 seconds.
Algolia details as published on algolia.com on 10/11/2026. Check their site for current plans and prices.