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Algolia Storage

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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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Search requests are the meter, not bytes. 10,000 search requests/month is ~333/day — this is the most brutally op-limited store in the dossier.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, cli rest
Tooling	REST API, official SDKs for ~15 languages, `algolia` CLI, InstantSearch widgets; records are JSON only
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.
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.
Notes	50,000 records on the Free/Build plan (100K on the paid Grow tier); 10,000 search requests/month
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
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"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted