Support Policy

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Last Updated: October 6th, 2021

  FREE PLAN STANDARD/PREMIUM PLAN PREMIER SUPPORT
Status Page ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Community Forum ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Account and Billing Inquiries ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Web Support* -- ✔️ ✔️
Guaranteed Response Times** -- -- ✔️
Account Success Team -- -- ✔️
Price -- Included Contact Sales

This description of Algolia's support services applies to customers who subscribe to the listed plans on or after the date of last update. The changes are not retroactive. If you are an existing customer as of that date, a description of your support service may be found below.

Hours of availability

Algolia Support is available Monday - Friday during standard business hours (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM local time), excluding local holidays.

* Web Support Includes

  • Incident Support - Identifying and troubleshooting problems using the Algolia APIs
  • Identifying and creating bug reports for Algolia APIs, Web Dashboard, API clients, front-end libraries and our extensions and integrations
  • Troubleshooting upgrades for Algolia API clients, front-end libraries and our extensions and integrations
  • Assistance with Algolia Services related questions; including relevancy, search or indexing guidance
  • Assistance with interpretation of Documentation

* Web Support Does Not Include

  • Beta, end of life cycle of Services including end of life of third party platforms
  • Customized versions of Algolia’s API client, front-end libraries, extensions and integrations (customized = original code has been modified)
  • General implementation guidance, development questions or requests
    -For community-based development support, please post these questions on Algolia Discourse
  • Third-party plugins or applications (other than our own)
  • Product training
  • Support in languages other than English
  • Signing in to your website or integration for troubleshooting or debugging
    • Professional Services (Contact sales to learn about the offerings).

** Guaranteed Response Times

For customers subscribing to Premier Support, Algolia will respond to errors in the hosted search services according to the schedule indicated below.

Response Times

  • Initial Response:
    • P0: 30 minutes
    • P1: 2 hours
    • P2: 24 hours
  • Minimum frequency of updates on the reported issues:
    • P0: Every hour
    • P1: Every 4 hours
    • P2: Every week

In the Initial Response, Algolia will confirm that the support request was received and taken into account.

For customers with guaranteed response times, Subscriber shall report the issue through the Support portal and specify the level of severity.

Severity levels are defined as follows:

  • Priority 0 (P0) Critical: There is a critical problem with the hosted search services in which there is a complete failure in the search service such that Subscriber is unable to obtain required results across all data centers.
  • Priority 1 (P1) Serious: Any of the following occurs: (a) there is a recurring critical failure in the hosted search services affecting indexing of required Subscriber Data or (b) there is an impairment in the hosted search services such that some search is intermittent and some Subscriber experience is affected.
  • Priority 2 (P2) Minor: Minor service errors or data problem or reasonable work-around exists or any error in the hosted search services not addressed above.

P0, P1 and P2 do not include issues related to the network between Algolia servers and Subscriber’s data centers.

For Subscribers that have not subscribed to the Premier Support, we attend to support requests as urgently as possible, but do not guarantee these response levels.

Eligibility and Software Maintenance

  • We do not support unofficial community-created integrations, frameworks, API clients, and front-end libraries.
  • All integrations, frameworks, API clients and front-end libraries must be on the most recent Algolia version to be eligible for support.

Deprecated Products

These Algolia products are no longer supported:

  • Offline mode
  • Wordpress Plugin
  • Magento1 Integration
  • Algolia Places (after May 31, 2022)

Help with Unsupported Issues

Algolia Community is a great channel for discussions outside the bounds of the Algolia Support offerings.
If you require support and services beyond our professional services, please consult our list of partners.

Professional Services Available

Contact Sales

Partners Services Available

Contact Partners