# Algolia vs Elasticsearch

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Algolia

| Attribute | Algolia | Elasticsearch |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 81.7 (70% (medium)) | 73 (58% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 18,551 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 78,195 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Algolia provides a managed platform that combines keyword search with AI-powered discovery features, including recommendations, semantic understanding, and retrieval-augmented generation capabilities for building search and discovery experiences. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/lp/thankyou-request-pricing-neuralsearch","question":"What is Algolia?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Algolia offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.40. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/pricing/grow-plan","question":"Is Algolia free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Algolia. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/lp/thankyou-request-pricing-neuralsearch","question":"What platforms does Algolia support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Algolia, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/lp/thankyou-request-pricing-neuralsearch","question":"Can Algolia be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Algolia, including Shopify, Analytics tools, Data pipelines, Ecommerce platforms, Slack, Stripe and Zendesk. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/pricing/grow-plan","question":"What does Algolia integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Algolia. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Algolia not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/distributed-secure/security-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Algolia have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Algolia is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.","source":"https://www.algolia.com/de/lp/thankyou-request-pricing-neuralsearch","question":"Where is Algolia available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elasticsearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Gold, Platinum and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"How much does Elasticsearch cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elasticsearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elasticsearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elasticsearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 32 integrations for Elasticsearch, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and GitHub, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elasticsearch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elasticsearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elasticsearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elasticsearch have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elasticsearch available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A search infrastructure built for AI-driven workflows, featuring RAG integration for grounded generative responses and no-code ranking and merchandising control. | A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs. |
| features.capabilities | `{"faceting":"yes","deployment":"managed","geo_search":false,"distributed":"clustered","soc2_type_ii":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","log_analytics":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"pricing_model":"tiered_cloud_consumption","vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","deployment_model":"managed_cloud_saas","relevance_tuning":"ranking_rules","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":false,"hipaa_compliance_for_medical_records":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":false,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true,"optical_character_recognition_ocr_for_pdfs":false,"admin_dashboard_for_search_analytics_and_gaps":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":false,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":false}` | `{"hosting":"both","faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"ES|QL","data_model":"document","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","replication":true,"sql_support":true,"index_engine":"lucene","licence_class":"source_available","log_analytics":true,"managed_cloud":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","full_text_search":true,"relevance_tuning":"ltr","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","horizontal_scaling":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 350 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Shopify"},{"name":"Analytics tools"},{"name":"Data pipelines"},{"name":"Ecommerce platforms"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Zendesk"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"NVIDIA AI"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Sarvam AI"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"LlamaParse"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"NVIDIA","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Auth0","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LlamaIndex","category":"ai"},{"name":"Red Hat","category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx","category":"ai"},{"name":"Cohere","category":"ai"},{"name":"LangChain","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","GB","DE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Grow","summary":"10K search requests/month and 100K records included, then $0.50 per 1K requests and $0.40 per 1K records","features":["Keyword Search + Browse","Query suggestions","Rules: 10/index","Manual synonyms","Data transformation","30 days analytics retention","Third party integrations + connectors","US, UK, EU hosting locations"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"request"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"record"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Foundational keyword search with visual tuning tools and analytics","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"records":"100k","search_requests":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Grow Plus","summary":"10K search requests/month and 100K records included, then $1.75 per 1K requests and $0.40 per 1K records","features":["Everything in Grow","Rules: 10,000/index","AI Ranking","Advanced Personalization","Query Categorization","Collections","90 days analytics retention"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"request"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.75,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"record"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Advanced keyword search with AI-powered ranking and personalization","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"records":"100k","search_requests":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Elevate","summary":"Custom enterprise pricing with advanced AI capabilities and enhanced SLA","features":["Everything in Grow Plus","NeuralSearch","AI Collections","Smart Groups","Real-time personalization","99.99% availability","SSO and Enhanced SLA","Enterprise-level Support","Professional services available"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Enterprise-grade AI search with dedicated support and advanced features","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 10K monthly requests and 100K records. Grow: $0.50 per 1K additional requests. Grow Plus: $1.75 per 1K additional requests. Elevate: custom pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.algolia.com/de/pricing/grow-plan","retrievedAt":"2026-09-08T15:40:44.099Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"record","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$99/month","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP","ES|QL query language and APIs","Default monitoring and AutoOps","Alerting with detection engine","Malware prevention","Cloud security posture management","APM, logging, metrics","Synthetic monitoring (limited)","Universal Profiling","LLM observability","Limited support (3-business day response)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Entry-level plan with distributed Elasticsearch across cloud providers, API access, monitoring, security alerts, and observability basics.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"$114/month","features":["All Standard features","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Multi-stack monitoring","Enterprise Search","External detection notifications","Base support (business hours, 1-day response for high)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Standard features plus reporting, enterprise search, advanced security, and base support with business hours availability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"$131/month with SLA","features":["All Gold features","Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)","Vector search with ELSER and e5 models","Cross-cluster replication","Log categorization","Service maps, tail-based sampling","APM correlations","ML-powered SIEM rules","Enhanced support (24/7, 1-hour urgent response)","99.95% uptime SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Gold features plus machine learning, advanced security, vector search with ML models, semantic reranking, and 24/7 support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$184/month","features":["All Platinum features","Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers","Elastic Maps Server","Cross-cluster search with ES|QL","ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder with LLM","AI-powered dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","AI Playground for RAG","Inference Service Management","Semantic reranking with ML models","Learn-to-Rank personalization","Storage optimization (DiskBBQ)","Attack Discovery with agentic investigation","Premium support (30-minute urgent response)","Cloud workload protection"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Platinum features plus searchable snapshots, GPU inference, AI-driven workflows, agent building, data federation, and premium support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Browser Tests","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Lightweight Tests","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-09-07T13:11:22.839Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | high |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":99,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 1 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.17","date":"2026-06-23T13:59:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.6","date":"2026-06-23T14:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.2","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.2"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27017","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.4 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.algolia.com/de/distributed-secure/security-compliance | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Search Engines)

| Capability | Algolia | Elasticsearch |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Index engine | - | Lucene |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL) | - | ES|QL |
| Faceting & filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Geo search | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Relevance** |  |  |
| Typo tolerance / fuzzy | Built-in | Built-in |
| Relevance tuning | Ranking rules | Learning-to-rank |
| **Vector** |  |  |
| Vector / hybrid search | Dense + lexical fusion | Dense + lexical fusion |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Distributed / horizontal scale | Clustered | Sharded |
| Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ingest** |  |  |
| Real-time indexing | Near-real-time | Near-real-time |
| **Workload** |  |  |
| Log / analytics workload | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Source-available (SSPL / Elastic) |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T01:59:11.681Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*