Search Integration Add-On

Fast, accurate, and relevant site search — sub-100ms response times, dynamic faceted filters, personalized results, smart synonyms, search insights, and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

How it works

In today's fast-paced online environment, fast, accurate, and relevant search results are crucial for optimizing success. We deploy Typesense Cloud as the default search provider — dedicated clusters with SOC 2Security certification verifying compliance with data security standards and HIPAAHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — compliance for healthcare data compliance included. For sites that need AI-powered search with neural ranking, visual merchandising, and behavioral personalization, we offer AlgoliaAdvanced search platform with AI-powered ranking and merchandising capabilities as a premium option.

Link search data to Advanced Analytics to tie user queries and click behavior into your dashboards — revealing which search terms or campaigns drive the highest ROIReturn on Investment. Sync real-time inventory with E-Commerce Pro so newly added products or pricing changes update instantly in search results. Our infrastructure is future-ready — easily handle increased traffic and data as your business expands. Available on Black Tie website tier only.

Applicable Website Tiers

  • Smart Casual N/A

    1 – 25 pages · $25/page/mo.

    Starting at $25/mo.

  • Professional N/A

    26 – 79 pages · $25/page/mo.

    Starting at $650/mo.

  • Black Tie Required

    80+ pages · $25/page/mo.

    Starting at $2,000/mo.

  • White Tie

    Tailored scope · Custom pricing

    Let's talk.

Key Features

  1. 99.9% Uptime SLAService Level Agreement — a guaranteed commitment with compensation if missed: We're confident in our search. If search is unavailable, receive a 10% credit.
  2. 100ms Search Speed SLAService Level Agreement — a guaranteed commitment with compensation if missed: If monthly average response times exceed 100ms, you'll get a 5% credit.Sub-100ms isn’t a vanity threshold — it’s the line between “search feels instant” and “visitors give up on the search box and use Google to find your product instead.” Industry research consistently shows that latency in the search box directly costs sales.Sub-100ms isn’t a vanity threshold — it’s the line between “search feels instant” and “visitors give up on the search box and use Google to find your product instead.” Industry research consistently shows that latency in the search box directly costs sales.
  3. Future-Ready Infrastructure: Easily handle increased traffic and data as your business expands. Our search scales seamlessly from thousands to millions of indexed items.
  4. Dynamic Faceted Filters: Offer multi-level categories (brand sub-brand) for smooth navigation — helping users drill down to exactly what they need.
  5. Personalized Results: We tailor search results to each visitor's context — including location, browsing history, and preferences — so they see the most relevant products and content first.
  6. Personalized Suggestions: Boost sales with "People Also Viewed" or "Similar Items" sections driven by browsing behavior and purchase patterns.
  7. Zero Results Management & Smart Synonyms: Avoid user dead-ends with fallback suggestions, plus synonyms for brand names or industry jargon that keep visitors engaged.
  8. Customizable Relevancy: Adjust weights for product attributes like brand, category, or popularity to ensure your top sellers or high-margin items rank first.Your bestseller should appear first when a customer searches its category — but the default search ranking is usually alphabetical or by date. Tuning relevancy boosts the items you actually want to sell to the top of results, where most clicks land.Your bestseller should appear first when a customer searches its category — but the default search ranking is usually alphabetical or by date. Tuning relevancy boosts the items you actually want to sell to the top of results, where most clicks land.
  9. Search Insights: We isolate popular terms, zero-result queries, and search-to-purchase data to optimize conversions and inform your content strategy.

Implementation Roadmap

Step 1

Discovery & Planning

We map your catalog or content, define ranking priorities, and shape the UX.
Step 2

Integration & Tailoring

We configure search, set up filters and synonyms, and tailor the UI's style.
Step 3

Personalization

We track user data so queries adapt to users' history, location, and preferences.
Step 4

Active Monitoring & Tracking

We monitor uptime, response times, and alert you to anomalies.
Step 5

Optimization & Reporting

We analyze top queries and KPIs, offering actionable steps for progress.

Pricing

Starting at $2,000/mo. If any single criterion for a tier is met (traffic, indexed items, online revenue, or languages), pricing transitions to that tier.
  • Standard $2,000/mo. Up to 5,000 indexed items. English only.
  • Growth $3,500/mo. Up to 20,000 indexed items. Multi-language support (up to 4 languages).
  • Enterprise $5,000/mo. 20,000+ indexed items. Unlimited multi-language support.

Industry Benchmarks

  1. Vendr (February 2026)

    The SaaS procurement marketplace Vendr (vendr.com (opens in new tab)) tracks 132 negotiated Algolia contracts. The median lands at $41,300/year, with a published range of $12,038 to $250,974/year. That's platform license alone — before any implementation, schema design, or ongoing tuning hour.

    132 actual Algolia contracts negotiated through Vendr's marketplace.

    Vendr 2026 Algolia Marketplace Pricing 
  2. Algolia

    Algolia's published self-serve pricing structure.

    • Build (free): 1M records / 10K searches for testing
    • Grow / Grow Plus: free to start, $0.40–$0.50 per 1,000 records over the cap
    • Elevate: annual contract — unlocks NeuralSearch, AI Collections, Smart Groups
    • Enterprise: contact sales — enhanced SLA, professional services

    Algolia's own published pricing page.

    Algolia 2026 Published Pricing 
  3. Typesense Cloud

    Typesense Cloud uses transparent pay-per-hour cluster pricing — no record limits, no operation limits, configurable RAM/CPU/HA, with a free tier covering the first 100 cluster hours. High-availability adds a 1.5× cluster cost multiplier and is recommended for production workloads.

    Typesense Cloud's own published pricing page.

    Typesense Cloud Pricing 
How we compare? Hide comparison

Our Search Integration is $2,000 to $5,000/month across three tiers, and that fee covers setup, schema design, indexing, and ongoing tuning. The vendor cluster itself sits on your account, not ours. The Vendr marketplace data above tracks 132 real Algolia contracts at a median of $41,300/year, with the high end past a quarter-million. That's the Algolia platform license alone, before any setup or agency time. Algolia's self-serve tiers start free for testing, then move to annual commitments at the Elevate tier where NeuralSearch and AI Collections unlock. Typesense Cloud uses pay-per-hour pricing with 100 free cluster hours, and that's what we default to: single-tenant, HIPAA-eligible, SOC 2 compliant, with the cluster in your name. Algolia is what we reach for when you need AI-powered ranking or behavioral personalization that Typesense can't match.

And unlike most peers, every third-party tool license (Semrush, VWO, Crowdin, Cloudflare, Stripe, etc.) sits on your account per our vendor-account-ownership architecture — no agency-marked-up tool fees, no goodbye-fee on offboarding.

TechTailors Search vs. Alternatives

TechTailors Search

  • 99.9% uptime + 100ms speed SLAs with real credit guarantees
  • AI-powered search with neural ranking available (Algolia premium option)
  • Real-time inventory sync with E-Commerce Pro
  • Starting at $2,000/mo. — transparent tier-based scaling
  • Full analytics dashboard — see what users search for, click, and purchase
  • Future-ready infrastructure that scales from thousands to millions of items

Alternatives

  • Custom search engines often exceed $50,000+ upfront, excluding maintenance
  • Managed search providers typically cost $3K–$10K/mo. with basic support only
  • Basic site search is slow, inaccurate, and offers no analytics or personalization
  • No uptime or speed guarantees — outages cost revenue with zero accountability
  • Standalone solutions require separate integration, customization, and monitoring costs

TechTailors

  • Setup fee $0 upfront
  • Monthly service (Standard) From $2,000/mo.
  • Full customization & scaling Included
  • When billing starts When we start setup work
  • Onboarding deposit $0
  • Hidden fees $0
Year 1 Total From $24,000/yr.

Traditional

  • Custom search engine (upfront) $50,000+
  • Managed search provider $3K–$10K/mo.
  • Integration & maintenance Extra
Year 1 Total $86,000–$170,000+ yr. 1

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