Goooooaaaallll..... Algolia
Updated April 30, 2025

Goooooaaaallll..... Algolia

Evelyn Dickinson (She/Her) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Algolia

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. Fortunately, Algolia makes this a snap. Our primary development framework is Laravel and Algolia integrates with Scout beautifully. Algolia also provides a backend for our clients to access analytics, salt their indexes with synonyms, etc. Algolia offers an incredibly fast and full-featured powerful solution set at a very reasonable price point. We love the ease of implementation and our clients couldn't be happier with the results.

Pros

  • Excellent search results
  • Easy integration
  • Great analytics
  • Blazing speed

Cons

  • Leverage AI/ML more and deliver those services to their non-premium subscribers
  • Automatic synonym suggestion / salting
  • Provide more examples for the frontend javascript search
  • Speed
  • Affordability
  • Ease of Implementation
  • The functionality generally delights our clients
  • Implementation is simple and keeps costs low
  • Analytics are incredibly empowering
We found the implementation and specifically the built-in integration with Laravel hard to pass up.

Do you think Algolia delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Algolia's feature set?

Yes

Did Algolia live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Algolia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Algolia again?

Yes

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.

Using Algolia

100 - Our inbound call center reps, analysts, developers, and linguist.
2 - Our tier one and two internal IT team supports our staff on Algolia-related concerns and improvements.
  • Integrates our internal apps, and our external resource finder.
  • Provides search analytics which drives our content team priorities.
  • Enables multi-lingual enterprise synonyms and search aids
  • Identify and prioritize content missing from our resource library
  • Enable location based searching
  • Compatibility with our Laravel application stack
  • Add additional indexes for other search based applications
  • Integrate resource index with our inbound call center application
  • Deepen our geo search capabilities
Algolia represents tremendous value for the price. It integrated seamlessly into our Laravel stack. And it's crazy fast.

Algolia Reliability

Algolia is designed to operate at scale. The response times are amazing, and they geographically balance loads.
Having used Algolia for over 5 years we have experienced zero downtime. I'd say that's pretty good.
Performance is always a major concern when integrating services with our client's websites. Our tests and real-world experience show that Algolia is highly performant. We have more extremely satisfied with the speed of both the search service APIs and the backend administrative and analytic interface.

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