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Algolia

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.

Algolia Video

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
  • Initial days, Algolia was easy to start with and saved crucial development time to build rest of the website and app.
  • Over time, the bills become huge as company scale and doesn't make sense to spend so much on search.
  • It worked for us for about 5 years and now we will be moving to inhouse search tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our first convention was significantly influenced as our members could effortlessly search for new product offerings
  • Creating new search criteria for an event or product launch only took 5 minutes with Algolia's user interface (UI)
  • The reporting dashboards are outstanding and deliver the necessary information promptly
December 11, 2023

Algolia at a glance

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cost is quite high if you have the ability to build your own indexing tool
  • Great for small startups that do not have the ability to design their own tool.
  • Helped propel our application in the beginning but having an easy to setup solution.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • help users find the page they are looking for can lead to increased sales
  • lower level of effort to implement Aloglia and digest site search data
  • increased employee and user engagement, which leads to digesting the website better.
November 29, 2023

Algolia for sme is great

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • About 30% of our customers use search to find products.
  • We aren't sure about customers who searched and couldn't purchase. Did we show wrong results?
  • Instead of vanilla search experience, a personalized search will be better based on customer browsing history
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Improvement of results and increase in search conversions
  • Proposal of related products that are consistent and have a higher conversion rate to customers
  • reduction of unsuccessful searches and improvements in results with incorrect searches
Andrew Derick Vorster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our team saw a 24% increase in click-through rate and 45% increase in conversion rate after implementing InstantSearch.
  • The bounce rate for Category pages has been reduced by 15% after Merchandising was implemented.
  • The time to conversion has been reduced from an average of 4 minutes to 60 seconds due to time saved by acurate search results that are instantly delivered to our customers search query.
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