Bolt.new vs Algolia

Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
vs. AI search & discovery — keyword + neural + personalization

Pricing tiers

Bolt.new

Free

1M tokens/month. 300K tokens/day cap. Public + private projects. 10MB file uploads. Hosting + unlimited DBs.

Free

Pro

$25/month. Starts at 10M tokens/month, no daily cap. No Bolt branding, 100MB uploads, custom domains, SEO support, image AI edit. Rollover tokens.

$25/mo

Teams

$30/member/month. Centralized billing, team access, private NPM registries, design system knowledge.

$30/mo

Enterprise

Custom. SSO, audit logs, dedicated account manager, 24/7 support.

Custom

Bolt.new ↗

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 free on Bolt.new vs build on Algolia.

Metric	Bolt.new	Algolia
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Bolt.new · 14 features

Browser Terminal — Real shell in-browser. Run npm install, scripts, etc.
Deploy to Netlify — One-click deploy to Netlify.
Deploy to Vercel — One-click deploy to Vercel.
Design System Knowledge — Team plan: shared design-system context for consistent UI.
Expo Support — Build React Native/Expo apps too.
GitHub Export — Push full project to a new GitHub repo.
Image Input — Upload image/sketch → Bolt generates matching UI.
Import Existing Project — Upload an existing repo and iterate in Bolt.
Live Edit + Run — Edit code + hot reload alongside AI agent.
Private NPM Registries — Team plan: use private packages.
Prompt to App — Describe app → Bolt scaffolds + codes + runs it in the browser.
Stripe Integration — Hook up Stripe payments in-chat.
Supabase Integration — Provision + connect Supabase from chat.
WebContainer runtime — Node.js + terminal + filesystem running entirely in your browser.

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

Kind	Bolt.new	Algolia
CLI	—	Algolia CLI
SDK	—	algoliasearch-client-go, algoliasearch-client-kotlin, algoliasearch-client-swift, algoliasearch-java, algoliasearch (JS), algoliasearch-php, algoliasearch-python, algoliasearch-rails, react-instantsearch
REST	—	Algolia Admin API, Algolia Search API
OTHER	Bolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtime	—

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