Pros and Cons of Algolia 2025

Name: What is Algolia
Uploaded: 2021-04-02T13:04:33.000Z
Duration: 1 min 37 s
Description: What is Algolia Search?

Overview

What is Algolia?

Algolia offers AI-powered solutions to improve online search and discovery experiences, with tools for business teams and APIs for developers that help to improve user engagement and conversions across websites, apps, and e-commerce platforms.

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Algolia is great for all E-commerce websites big or small

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 5, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Algolia to provide a better shopping experience on our BigCommerce website. The out of the box site search on BigCommerce does not meet our standard needs. We use Algol...

Sarah Goodfellow

Employee - Information Technology

Web Developer

Sellars

2 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

A helpful platform that makes search easy and saves time

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 2, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Algolia to help support multiple parts of our marketplace -- resource search, trending search queries/autocomplete, and select re-ranking tools. These enable us to serv...

Will Essilfie

Program Manager - Product Management

Product Manager

TPT

4 years of experience

Goooooaaaallll..... Algolia

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 30, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

As software developers, we are often called upon to develop web applications that offer enterprise-grade search experiences, with analytics and all the bells and whistles. For...

Evelyn Dickinson (She/Her)

Consultant - Information Technology

Senior Consultant / Founder

logical alternative, inc.

4 years of experience

Great tools for search indexing and ranking

Rating: 8 out of 10

April 30, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Algolia for indexing and searching for all our website pages. It helps us organise our pages into different indices by types, help rank and sort them - index wise and a...

Naman Chaturvedi

Manager - Product Management

Product Manager

BrowserStack

2 years of experience

Use Algolia if You Want to Make Firestore Searchable

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 29, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Algolia for search of structured information on our website.

Fedor Tyurin

C-Level Executive - Engineering

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

Enable Banking

4 years of experience

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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 a provider of AI-powered search and discovery solutions. Following its acquisition of Search.io, Algolia became a hybrid search engine to combine keyword and vector search in a single API—enabling retailers to capture more long-tail demand. Powering 1.75 trillion searches annually, Algolia's 2025 launch includes a trifecta of AI-powered ranking capabilities: Advanced Dynamic Reranking, Multi-Signal Ranking, and Dynamic Reranking for Revenue. These advancements help businesses optimize for relevance, conversions, and revenue while delivering fast, intelligent search experiences across all digital touchpoints. Learn more at algolia.com

Algolia boasts users among 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers worldwide.

Algolia Screenshots

Screenshot of Index & Query Rules Management: Query Rules help 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 Integrations

Shopify
Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
commercetools
Adobe AEM
AWS
MACH
https://www.algolia.com/developers/integrations

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Algolia Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported Countries	Global
Supported Languages	All

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Frequently Asked Questions

Algolia offers AI-powered solutions to improve online search and discovery experiences, with tools for business teams and APIs for developers that help to improve user engagement and conversions across websites, apps, and e-commerce platforms.

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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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A helpful platform that makes search easy and saves time

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 02, 2025

WE

Will Essilfie

Product Manager

TPT (E-Learning, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

Pros

Intuitive analytics about search performance
Helpful and technical customer support and account management teams
Customization to modify their product to specific business use cases
Ability to test new optimizations for search ranking to improve results and meet business needs

Cons

Better integration of features (ex. synonyms feature is great but isn't respected by their re-ranking product)
Tooling to reduce spam search queries being triaged by system/logged to analytics panels
More automated summaries of analytics (ie. recommend synonyms to add, trends noticed in search volume in specific areas of site, easier ways to leverage API vs using website UI)