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# Algolia Search API

Hosted search platform with typo tolerance, faceting, and real-time indexing for high-conversion product discovery.

## Record

- **Schema type**: Corporation
- **Website**: https://www.algolia.com
- **Email**: support@algolia.com
- **Address**: 379 Harrison Street, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
- **Coordinates**: 37.7865, -122.3958
- **Deployment Link**: [Deploy Algolia Search API Stack Layer](https://www.algolia.com/users/sign_up)

### Summary

Hosted search platform with typo tolerance, faceting, and real-time indexing for high-conversion product discovery.

### Description

Algolia delivers sub-50ms query responses with distributed replicas, A/B testing, and analytics dashboards. Merchants and SaaS teams ship instant autocomplete and relevance tuning without operating Elasticsearch clusters.

### Expert insight

Use replica indices for sorting strategies instead of overloading a single index with conflicting ranking formulas.

### Attributes

- **Free Tier Allowance**: 10,000 Searches
- **Rate Limit Cap**: 100,000 Records
- **Session Lifetime**: 24 Hours
- **Overage Fee per 1k MAU**: 0.5 USD/1k searches
- **MFA Support**: Enforced via Algolia dashboard MFA and team access controls
- **Enterprise SSO SAML**: Available on Premium and Enterprise plans with SAML SSO
- **Custom Domain Support**: Custom search domains and secured API keys on paid tiers
- **Supported SDKs**: JavaScript, React, Vue, iOS, Android, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, .NET
- **Social Providers**: GitHub and Google OAuth for dashboard authentication
- **Compliance Standards**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise
- **Webhook Fallback Policy**: Indexing webhooks with retry via Algolia tasks API and monitoring alerts