The previous Starter tier pricing was a lot cheaper. Most important point to note is that additional searches were closer to 10k/$1 vs the proposed 1000 (additional 100k operations: $10/month). Yes, these were 'operations' not searches' but the mapping between operations vs searches doesn't appear to be anywhere near 10-1.
This is not the case, the price of unit decrease with volume and you can have a big discount if you want to commit to a yearly (similar to AWS/GCP/Azure)
I fail to see where you provided him wrong, based on my math and the calculator in the backend. The existing $29 is roughly equal to $240 on the new plan 250,000 operations vs 250,000 searches. Obviously operations include adding/updating/deleting data. But if you don't do any of that it's basically a different of $220. If you do some operations, say half of them are operations you are looking at $150~ vs $29.
I see it like they're chasing the lower end of the market like single dev projects that don't want to spend much - which I guess makes sense. But for us this definitely would be a lot more expensive.
Well, if so they've failed in my case. I've got a customer doing £1m annual turnover on e-commerce, and we were about to start an integration with Algolia. The new pricing has stopped that from going ahead. I've been asked to find an alternative.
With the Covid crisis we were no longer able to pay 3K per month for a basic search engine and now we are using a solution based on this on production (> 30M search/month).
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This is a huge increase in pricing for all our customers using Algolia.
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The previous Starter tier pricing was a lot cheaper. Most important point to note is that additional searches were closer to 10k/$1 vs the proposed 1000 (additional 100k operations: $10/month). Yes, these were 'operations' not searches' but the mapping between operations vs searches doesn't appear to be anywhere near 10-1.
This is not the case, the price of unit decrease with volume and you can have a big discount if you want to commit to a yearly (similar to AWS/GCP/Azure)
I fail to see where you provided him wrong, based on my math and the calculator in the backend. The existing $29 is roughly equal to $240 on the new plan 250,000 operations vs 250,000 searches. Obviously operations include adding/updating/deleting data. But if you don't do any of that it's basically a different of $220. If you do some operations, say half of them are operations you are looking at $150~ vs $29.
I see it like they're chasing the lower end of the market like single dev projects that don't want to spend much - which I guess makes sense. But for us this definitely would be a lot more expensive.
Well, if so they've failed in my case. I've got a customer doing £1m annual turnover on e-commerce, and we were about to start an integration with Algolia. The new pricing has stopped that from going ahead. I've been asked to find an alternative.
What is your stack ?
I made a simple Proof-of-concept of a PHP backend based on Redisearch compatible with the Instantsearch.js library.
You can take a look at it here : https://github.com/MKCG/algolia-on-redisearch/tree/master/ap...
With the Covid crisis we were no longer able to pay 3K per month for a basic search engine and now we are using a solution based on this on production (> 30M search/month).