Algolia

Algolia

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Algolia

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Search the best search engine!

7 out of 10
August 24, 2018
Algolia is being used by our organization in specific departments. It is not being used by the entire organization. It is a strong search …
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Analyst

Algolia Reduces Search Headaches

8 out of 10
November 06, 2017
Algolia is being used site wide for customer facing search on all the Tanga Network properties. It makes it so our application developers …
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Executive

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Free

$0

Cloud
per month up to 10,000 records

Algolia Recommend

$0.60

Cloud
per month 1,000 requests

Algolia Search - Standard

$1

Cloud
per month per 1,000 requests +1,000 records

Entry-level set up fee?

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

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  • 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 Features

  • Supported: Algolia Recommend: Related Products
  • Supported: Algolia Recommend: Frequently Bought Together
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Pre-built UI Libraries
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Search Analytics
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Query Suggestions
  • Supported: Algolia Search: A/B Testing
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Visual Editor
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Personalization
  • Supported: Algolia Search: Dynamic Re-Ranking

Algolia Screenshots

Index & Query Rules Management: Query Rules allow you to enhance your engine's ranking behavior for specific queries. You can set up rules to uncover and respond more specifically to the intent behind your users' queries.Query Monitoring: Get insight into the status, performance and overall activity happening within your search engine.Algolia Analytics: Your search bar is a feedback form. Discover how Algolia's analytics drives insights from search to click to conversion.Algolia Dashboard: Products to accelerate search and discovery experiences across any device and platform.Advanced front-end libraries, API clients, and extensive documentation to help developers build, deploy, and maintain with ease.Getting started with Recommend is easy, simply choose your index, denote the events, and choose your model.

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What is Algolia Search?

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Algolia Technical Details

Deployment TypesSaaS
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesAll

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Algolia?

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

How much does Algolia cost?

Algolia starts at $0.

Who uses Algolia?

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

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August 04, 2021

Algolia, the best option to start with your search engine needs

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Mixer Gutierrez
Group Technical Lead
La Haus (Real Estate, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Small teams who are in need of a Search solution in a short time and with limited resources (in terms of developer bandwidth), who also are iterating a lot on search-related features and in a discovery/experimentation phase and not having to worry a lot about performance tuning (although is really fast out of the box)
July 30, 2021

Best-in-class website search, filtering, and optimization

JT
Jeff Thomas
Head of Digital
Shoebacca (Retail, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Algolia is best suited for large-scale enterprise e-commerce websites. Not useful to smaller-volume companies with limited scale and traffic. Companies will need scale to be able to justify the investment into a robust site search platform like Algolia.

Algolia works well within organizations that have an established development team and/or outsource development/support organization. Technical dependencies can be a barrier without adequate development support.
July 13, 2021

Algolia is the perfect search solution for small teams/startups

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Aishik Dhar
Product Manager
Goodera (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It is extremely well suited for hyper-local search. We have seen better conversions after we have introduced Algolia. Also, for a small team initially starting off, it is difficult to implement and maintain Elastic Search. Hence Algolia is the perfect solution for such use cases.
February 04, 2020

Algolia - fast search results with fast go-to-market

Sagiv Frankel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sagiv Frankel
Senior Software Engineer
WeWork (Internet, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It's less appropriate if you can't afford your data being persisted on a cloud service. Also, if search is a key component of your business I don't believe relying on a third-party service is worth it. Deploying your own Elasticsearch cluster is not that hard of an endeavour and would also save you money.
However, for any other use case Algolia will save you a lot of time and give your business amazing full text search capabilities with minimum friction and time.
January 29, 2019

Algolia is a great solution for searches on e-commerce websites

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Algolia is best suited for e-commerce websites where you have a large number of products to display to your customers. It could also be useful for knowledge bases and site search.

It may be less suited for small amounts of data since a simple algorithm can work just as well.
January 08, 2019

Algolia: With great power comes expensive pricing

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Program Manager in Product Management
Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a dedicated developer who has the technical know-how to delve deep into Algolia's documentation to figure out what makes it tick, this is the product for you. Algolia's framework is extremely powerful, making search instantaneous and providing users with results at break-neck speeds. If all you need is great search, but you do not require a complex relevancy algorithm running it, Algolia will work well for you. The more complex your use case, the more expensive the product becomes.
August 24, 2018

Search the best search engine!

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Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Algolia supports platforms that are web-based and Windows phone app based, which makes it more flexible. It focuses on features like API and SSL Security. The search results provided by Algolia are super-fast and very useful. It is extremely useful in a high-speed environment where data is required at your [fingertips]. When there is complex systems involved, it does a very good job.
May 23, 2018

Exactly what I was searching for

Rich Warren | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rich Warren
Growth Engineering Lead
Fat Lama (Internet, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Any consumer-facing business that needs instant search results for user searches. Excellent fits would be e-commerce solutions and marketplaces. If your traffic is low it is also a relatively cost-effective solution than using your own solution (e.g. elastic search). Perfect for teams that do not have the architectural knowledge to set up their own search solutions.
December 15, 2017

Searching for that special search platform? You've found it with Algolia.

Eli Allen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eli Allen
Founder
Curtsy (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Algolia is great anytime you need client search. I would never use it to do any automated tasks or anything like that, though. It's great for human use, and I don't know if anyone would ever want to use it for anything other than client-search, but Algolia knows its domain very well and solves client search more easily than any alternative I've seen.
November 03, 2017

Algolia is fantastic and lightning fast

Michael Riess | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Riess
Owner
Riess Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Algolia provides lightning fast search results and allows you to customize and pull in results from a lot of different places. Support and reliability are top notch and I have no problem recommending it to anyone.

Smaller companies with less tech resources may find Swiftype somewhat more user friendly to implement and use, but Algolia can definitely be plug and play if you only have one platform and can just use their out of the box plugins (Shopify, WP, etc.)