No. The browse and browseObjects methods do not count against your search request quota.
These methods exist to iterate over every record in an index, for exports, backups, or migrations, rather than to serve results to a user. They are metered on the indexing side, not as search requests.
Important: a category page is not a browse call
"Browsing" in the everyday sense, a user moving through category pages, applying filters, paging through results, has nothing to do with the browse endpoint.
A category or listing page built with Algolia sends an ordinary search request with filter parameters applied. That is a billable search request, and so is each subsequent request sent when the user changes a filter or moves to the next page.
| What it is | Counted as |
|---|---|
browse / browseObjects - iterating an index to export records |
Not a search request |
| A category page, listing page, or filtered result set shown to a user | A billable search request, one per page load and per refinement |
If you're trying to account for category-page traffic in your bill, see Why are the search request numbers in my Billing and Analytics pages different?