ElasticPress.io, our fast and flexible search solution for WordPress, has added a new Engage plan, making modern, AI-capable search available for as little as $29/month.
Engage is a great fit for smaller sites and growing businesses that want best in class website search, without enterprise-grade pricing. It opens the door for more WordPress sites to offer faster and better search results, scalable performance gains for WordPress and WooCommerce sites with large content and product databases, and AI-powered features like semantic search and search summaries that can provide quick answers.
At $350 for a year, growing e-commerce sites may find that ElasticPress Engage quickly pays for itself, by reducing customer friction and churn, and defraying WordPress hosting costs by offloading the most server intensive operations.
ElasticPress Transforms WordPress Search
At its core, ElasticPress takes over the out-of-the-box WordPress search experience, and plugs it into modern infrastructure that’s dramatically faster, more accurate, and scalable.
This turbocharged backbone unlocks instant site search and content filtering for visitors, with results that are typo-tolerant, relevancy-ranked, context-aware, and highly customizable by site owners. For WooCommerce-powered stores with a large number of SKUs, ElasticPress can vastly improve product discovery and speed up site navigation and product sorting.
In the WordPress admin, ElasticPress also takes over complex queries to make managing and navigating product and content libraries more efficient, speeding up site management work and reducing resource-intensive drains on WordPress hosting.
In 2025, we upgraded ElasticPress with an OpenAI integration offering:
- Semantic search capabilities: search results that understand intent and meaning, not just keywords.
- AI-generated answers: no-click-needed summaries in response to informational queries atop search results.
While slated to become core ElasticPress.io features in the future, advanced AI features currently require an OpenAI key, and may incur separate OpenAI API usage fees.
Learn more about all of the features and capabilities ElasticPress brings to WordPress.
Expanding Access to Modern Search
The previous entry point for our ElasticPress.io plans was $79/month; a price suited to more established publishers and ecommerce stores, or agencies managing multiple environments. The new $29/month Engage plans (with an annual commitment) open up ElasticPress to a much wider market.
Growing WooCommerce stores who want to grow with instant search results and fast filtering that won’t grind the site to a halt.
Marketing and brand sites with tighter budgets that still call out for smarter search results across their content libraries.
Teams experimenting with AI search and answers on a scalable, proven platform.
The Engage plan includes all ElasticPress features, including access to AI capabilities (with an OpenAI API key), for a single site. It doesn’t support staging environments or higher end indexing or search volumes, which we’ve found to be a non-issue for its target audience.
Try ElasticPress Engage
From improving product filtering, to helping your site affordably scale up to growing demand, to getting visitors quickly to the content and products they’re looking for, to adding AI-powered discovery, our team is excited to expand our reach and turbocharge more WordPress sites.Learn about all of our plans and set up a no-hassle free trial at ElasticPress.io.
