Algolia Restricts Merchandising Studio to Elevate Plan, Impacting Premium Users

Between the Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025 captures of Algolia's pricing page, Pulse recorded 7 changes: Advanced Dynamic Re-ranking added to Premium plan - increase the reach of Dynamic Re-Ranking (requires contact sales); Merchandising Studio availability restricted - previously available on Premium and Elevate plans, now only available on Elevate plan; Dynamic Re-ranking for Revenue added to Premium plan - choose revenue as a goal when reranking results (requires contact sales); Multi-signal Ranking added to Premium plan - optimize search results order based on multiple data signals (requires contact sales); Collections feature added across all plans - create seasonal or thematic collections pages instantly without coding; Fetch integration added across all plans - enrich records by calling any 3rd party service; Advanced Personalization feature added to Premium plan - personalize search & browse results based on user actions (requires contact sales). Pulse files it as a product change (feature added, feature change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 17, 2026) lists Grow at $0.6 per 1K Recommendation requests + $0.5 per 1K search requests and Grow Plus at $0.4 per 1K records + $1.75 per 1K search requests.

Algolia's previous recorded change was "Algolia Removes Recommendations Analytics from AI Recommendations, Enhancing Looking Similar Feature for All Plans" (Q3 2024). Before that Pulse recorded "Algolia Updates Add-ons Language to Annual Commit for Enhanced Paid Features" (Q1 2024). Algolia has been tracked since 2023-11-14.

In the same window Elastic also changed their Marketing & Content pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.