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Auth0 vs Algolia

Customer identity platform from Okta
vs. AI search & discovery — keyword + neural + personalization

Auth0 website ↗Algolia website ↗

Pricing tiers

Auth0

B2C Essentials
Starting at 500 MAUs. Pro MFA, RBAC, passwordless, SAML, 10 orgs.
$35/mo
B2B Essentials
Unlimited orgs, 3 SSO connections, RBAC.
$150/mo
B2C Professional
Starting at 500 MAUs. Includes attack protection, custom DB, enterprise MFA.
$240/mo
B2B Professional
5+ SSO connections, attack protection, custom DB.
$800/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 99.99% SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Auth0 website ↗

Algolia

Build (Free)
10K search requests/mo, 1M records. Full features for dev/testing.
Free
Grow (PAYG)
Free up to 10K searches/mo + 100K records. $0.50 per 1K additional searches + $0.40 per 1K additional records.
$0 base (usage-based)
Grow Plus (PAYG)
Adds AI Ranking, Advanced Personalization, AI Synonyms, 10k rules/index. $1.75 per 1K searches.
$0 base (usage-based)
Elevate
Annual. NeuralSearch + AI Collections + Smart Groups + real-time personalization. 99.999% SLA, SSO.
Custom
Algolia website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing b2c-essentials on Auth0 vs build on Algolia.

MetricAuth0Algolia
mau start500 MAU—
sso connections0 conns—

Features

Auth0 · 14 features

  • Attack Protection — Bot detection, brute-force protection, breached-password detection, suspicious I…
  • Auth0 Actions — Node.js + TS hooks that run during auth flows (login, post-login, signup, MFA). …
  • Auth0 FGA (OpenFGA) — Fine-grained relationship-based authorization (ReBAC). Based on Google Zanzibar.
  • Custom Database — BYO user DB: scripts in Actions read from your database and create Auth0 users o…
  • Custom Domain — Serve auth at auth.yourbrand.com with managed cert.
  • Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0 + OIDC + AD/LDAP enterprise connections. Per-tenant or per-org.
  • Log Streaming — Stream tenant logs to Datadog, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Azure Sentinel, HTTP, Mixpane…
  • Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials grant for backend services.
  • Multi-Factor Auth — SMS, Voice, Email, TOTP, WebAuthn (biometrics), Push (Guardian app), Duo.
  • Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B: orgs with invitations, roles, branding, enterprise connections…
  • Passkeys — FIDO2/WebAuthn passkey sign-in.
  • Passwordless — Email magic link + code, SMS code, WebAuthn.
  • RBAC — Roles, permissions, API scopes — attach to users or orgs.
  • Universal Login — Hosted login page with customization, multi-factor flows, passwordless, social, …

Algolia · 16 features

  • A/B Testing — Compare two index configurations on live traffic.
  • AI Ranking — Dynamic re-ranking based on clicks + conversions.
  • Algolia Crawler — Hosted crawler to index websites.
  • Autocomplete — JavaScript autocomplete UI library.
  • Insights API — Send click + conversion events to train AI Ranking.
  • InstantSearch UI — UI libraries: React, Vue, Angular, iOS, Android — prebuilt search components.
  • Keyword Search — Fast prefix + typo-tolerant full-text search.
  • MCP Tools — Algolia MCP server for agent integrations.
  • Merchandising Studio — No-code UI for merchants to pin/bury/boost products.
  • NeuralSearch — Hybrid vector + keyword search.
  • Personalization — Per-user ranking based on click history.
  • Query Suggestions — AI-generated suggestion index from past searches.
  • Recommend — Product recommendations: Related, Frequently Bought Together, Trending.
  • Rules — Conditional overrides: pin results, banners, redirects, boost/bury.
  • Search Analytics — Top searches, no-result searches, click-through rates.
  • Synonyms — Equivalent term groups + typo-tolerance tuning.

Developer interfaces

KindAuth0Algolia
CLIAuth0 CLIAlgolia CLI
SDKAuth0 Android, Auth0 iOS/Swift, @auth0/nextjs-auth0, Auth0 React SDK, Auth0 SPA.js SDK, Go Auth0 SDK, Node Auth0 Backend SDK, Python Auth0 SDKalgoliasearch-client-go, algoliasearch-client-kotlin, algoliasearch-client-swift, algoliasearch-java, algoliasearch (JS), algoliasearch-php, algoliasearch-python, algoliasearch-rails, react-instantsearch
RESTAuthentication API, Management APIAlgolia Admin API, Algolia Search API
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