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Overview

What is Algolia?

Algolia in San Francisco, California offers enterprise search as a service.

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Recent Reviews

Algolia is Fast

9 out of 10
December 08, 2023
Incentivized
Algolia has revolutionized the way we approach search functionality on our websites and applications. As a developer, I've had the …
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Streamlined platform

10 out of 10
December 02, 2023
Incentivized
Algolia helps us both AB test and roll out optimizations to our search experience without the need for any significant code changes and …
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Awards

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Pricing

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Build

$0

Cloud
per month Up to 10,000 search requests + 1 Million records

Grow

$0.50

Cloud
per month per 1,000 search requests

Algolia Recommend

$0.60

Cloud
per month per 1,000 Recommend requests

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.algolia.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Algolia?

Algolia is an API platform for dynamic experiences that helps businesses maximize the speed of search and discovery, while solving the pain of relevance tuning through AI. The solution aims to make accessing the right piece of content on websites and apps faster and more intuitive.

  • Algolia Search is a fully hosted API that delivers content to users in milliseconds. Developers can customize the relevance of their user experience and get insights on how users interact with it.
  • Algolia Recommend is an API that allows users to build unique product recommendations into any digital ecommerce experience.

Algolia Screenshots

Screenshot of Index & Query Rules Management: Query Rules helps to enhance an engine's ranking behavior for specific queries. Setting up rules can uncover and enable users to respond more specifically to the intent behind users' queries.Screenshot of Query Monitoring: Offers insight into the status, performance and overall activity happening within the search engine.Screenshot of Algolia Analytics: The search bar is a feedback form. Algolia's analytics drives insights from search to click to conversion.Screenshot of Algolia Dashboard: Products to accelerate search and discovery experiences across any device and platform.Screenshot of Advanced front-end libraries, API clients, and extensive documentation to help developers build, deploy, and maintain.Screenshot of To get started users simply choose an index, denote the events, and choose a model.

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What is Algolia Search?

Algolia Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesAll

Frequently Asked Questions

Algolia in San Francisco, California offers enterprise search as a service.

Algolia starts at $0.

Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, and Elastic Enterprise Search are common alternatives for Algolia.

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Algolia are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is well-suited for organizations with vast documentation repositories. Its robust search capabilities make it easy for users, especially developers, to quickly find relevant information within extensive documentation. When prioritizing a seamless and efficient user experience, Algolia proves to be highly beneficial. Its fast and accurate search results contribute to a positive interaction for users seeking specific information.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is very well suited for small organisations launching their website or app for ecommerce. It is quick to setup, easy to integrate but costs you more in long term. For bigger organisation with sheer scale, building search inhouse will always be beneficial for long term. It works that's it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is well suited for large scale websites that find it hard to manage their streams of data. It provides a "home base" for all sources of information and gives developers the flexibility to take those data streams and manipulate them for presentable web applications. It may not be super useful or suitable for smaller scale companies and businesses that don't have that many sources of content.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia offers a wide range of capabilities that can benefit any business by addressing their specific requirements. Integrating with this platform is seamless, and their extensive knowledgebase and training resources are highly valuable for both developers and UI users. We have already witnessed the advantages of this product and are eagerly anticipating future enhancements as we continue to expand our platform, with Algolia as our primary tool for enhancing our search experience.
December 11, 2023

Algolia at a glance

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for web applications and mobile apps that need an on demand search function. If you rely on larger datasets within a database utilizing Algolia for indexing is a time saver and ensure quick and accurate search results.

It is not suited for some different areas such as stream logging or complex aggregations on large document sets.
December 08, 2023

Algolia is Fast

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well-Suited Scenarios for Algolia:E-commerce Search:Scenario: Algolia shines in e-commerce applications where users expect fast and precise search results. Its ability to handle large product catalogs and provide instant, relevant suggestions makes it an excellent choice for optimizing the shopping experience.Content-heavy Websites:Scenario: Websites with a vast amount of content, such as news portals or knowledge bases, benefit from Algolia's speed and relevance. Users can quickly find the information they need, and developers can customize the ranking to prioritize content based on relevance.Mobile Applications:Scenario: Algolia is well-suited for mobile apps where user attention is limited, and quick, accurate search results are crucial. Its lightweight integration and efficient handling of real-time data make it ideal for delivering a seamless search experience on mobile devices.Job Boards and Listings:Scenario: Platforms featuring job listings, real estate, or any form of classifieds benefit from Algolia's ability to provide instant search results. Users can find relevant listings swiftly, and developers can customize the search parameters to prioritize certain criteria.Collaborative Tools:Scenario: Applications involving collaboration and data sharing, such as project management tools, can leverage Algolia for fast and efficient search across diverse datasets. This enhances the user experience by quickly surfacing relevant information.Less Appropriate Scenarios for Algolia:Static Websites:Scenario: For simple, static websites with limited content and infrequent updates, Algolia might be overkill. The speed and real-time indexing features may not provide substantial benefits in scenarios where search demands are minimal.Highly Sensitive Data:Scenario: If your application deals with extremely sensitive or confidential data, such as health records or financial information, the real-time indexing and caching features of Algolia might pose security concerns. In such cases, a more controlled and private search solution may be preferable.Budget Constraints for Small Projects:Scenario: Algolia, while powerful, comes with a cost. For small projects with limited budgets and simple search requirements, exploring lighter, open-source alternatives might be more appropriate to avoid unnecessary expenses.Offline or Limited Connectivity Environments:Scenario: Algolia relies on a cloud-based infrastructure, which may not be suitable for applications that require search functionality in offline or intermittently connected environments. In such cases, a local search solution might be more appropriate.Complex Custom Data Structures:Scenario: If your application deals with highly complex and nested data structures that don't conform well to Algolia's indexing model, the implementation might become cumbersome. In such scenarios, a more flexible search solution could be considered.In essence, Algolia is a powerful tool that excels in scenarios where fast and relevant search results significantly impact user experience. However, for simpler projects or those with unique constraints, exploring alternative solutions might be more suitable.
December 04, 2023

The best search solution!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need to implement a fully customizable search solution quickly, there is no doubt that Algolia is the leader in that space. Our stakeholders particularly liked that you can adjust how search results are shown to the user. For example, when working on an e-commerce site, we were able to rank specific results based on keywords, which drove the users to click on more valuable products.

In cases where you have several dispersed data sets you want to be searchable in a single index, it's best to try to conform all of the data to work in a single index versus using Algolia multi-index search as it's complex to order the results correctly.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia has an easy-to-understand user interface and a new user can log in and quickly be onboarded. Once onboarded they can be to understand the reports currently available and start to digest data. Algolia can do a better job of including features and resources from other site search tools, like elastic search.
December 02, 2023

Streamlined platform

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is great for organizations that might not have the resources or bandwidth to build a search testing platform from scratch.
It is a great off the shelf solution that is both customizeable and powerful.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is best suited in the inital phase of your business, where you have less traffic (less than 100000 per day) coming to your sites. As the traffic grews beyond few million hits, the cost increases exponentially and relevancy tends to decrese. To launch search quickly during the initial phase, Algolia is of great use as you do not have to do any development and you can just plug and play Algolia search. For heavy traffic, you tend to have more control on query formation and search results along with analytics and result re ranking, thats when you decide to build inhouse search service more relevant to your usecase.
November 29, 2023

Algolia for sme is great

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is very well suited for small tech organisations which cannot focus on search. It helps you build a quick search engine without much effort from your tech team so that you can focus on the work that matters for your business. It works and it is decently reliable piece of software.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Deliver the best-of-breed search experience in a e-commerce, with speed and ease of implementation on very large product catalog and different languages. Provide a practically instantaneous navigation system on the product catalog of your site, integrating the Algolia search directly on product listing and menu. Management and operation of the search platform without the need for in-depth technical knowledge. Zero-config product recommendation system with machine learning based on effective customer behavior.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For example we wanted to display the reviews for the right business in less than one second for iOS app, Android app and website.
To get the data from millions of reviews with traditional tools it's not as easy as Algolia.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited: I would recommend Algolia if you have an ecommerce with relevant traffic and with a big catalog that needs to place the right products on the right place to give the user a better experience.

Not well suited I would not recommend if you have a small eccomerce with small catalogs, because the AI would not make a big change
Evelyn Dickinson (She/Her) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Algolia is targeted at consumer product sites but most of our applications tend to be more textual, e.g. text-based articles, and resources. We sometimes have to break the models down into multiple chunks but it's a viable workaround.
Andrew Derick Vorster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Algolia is well suited to provide a greatly superiour user experience for site search.
  • Algolia is great at implementing merchandising for category pages that are based on Rules.
  • Algolia provides excellent instant results for searches no matter what device or platform you are consuming it from.
  • Algolia has a well documented library to facilitate the integration process and samples to enable developers to implement features into any existing platform with easy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For example, a search for dog vaccines on other pet health supply company websites would come up with only product results, Revival Animal Health’s multifaceted results provide both product and informative content from our Learning Center.

Also, our merchandising team has worked up a product ranking structure, based on keywords. We can then ensure that our Proprietary Brands: Breeder’s Edge, Doc Roy's Vet Basics and Shelter's Choice show first in applicable search results.
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