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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The best search system for firestore
Reviewed on 2021/05/18
Thanks to Algolia, I integrated a search system in my project made with Angular / Fire. Now I am thinking of integrating its geo-search. Hopefully, it will be as good as your search with firestore.
Pros
The best of all is the ease of integration with your project, both to the back and front, and how easy it is to build the queries.
Cons
That it does not have a pay per use as firebase does, you only have 2 options, the free account or the payment commitment, use or do not use all your operations for which you are going to pay
Response from Algolia
Hi there, thanks for your review! We're glad to hear you were able to get up and running with your project. For geo-search questions, or anything else, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Very easy to get started
Reviewed on 2021/10/25
Pros
The documentation is very well organized and so it was easy for us as a startup to add search functionality to our product.
There is an official python client package, including packages for other languages.
Cons
It's a bit expensive so we'll have to evaluate at the time we want to scale.
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Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Algolia
Easier to setup and get started. Fully managed and hosted solution.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Extending the capability of other platforms
Reviewed on 2022/05/26
Extremely positive. Fast to implement and very few issues.
Pros
We use Algolia to provide deeper search functionality than in provided out-of-the-box by most content management systems. Algolia provides a richer search experience and is easy to integrate and configure.
Cons
No direct drawbacks. We've used it successfully for many years, and our clients understand that to offer quality search functionality to their customers, incurs a cost. I say this as many of the existing reviews say Algolia is expensive.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Decent search for okay pricing
Reviewed on 2021/03/02
The algorithm can be quite good, but you need to twist te right knobs to get that result. This also goes for the implementation.
Pros
Algolia is a tool that comes with a lot of features. However, it's not as easy to implement as you would think.
Cons
It was not "plug and play". The implementation is integrated in the website and you need to work on the interface before you can implement it correctly.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Super simple full-text search for Firebase
Reviewed on 2022/04/30
Super easy-to-use, feature-rich and developer-friendly.
Pros
Setting up full-text search of data stored in Firebase won't take longer than one day. Extremely easy-to-use ready-made components for Vue.js made our front-end developer happy and significantly reduced time to market.
Cons
I see Algolia a bit expensive for the cases where full-text search is just a nice-to-have feature. However we made our front-end to display data from Algolia only (originally data was retrieved from Firebase), and this pays off.
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Apache SolrReasons for Switching to Algolia
Ease of use- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The leading search API
Reviewed on 2022/06/02
I used Algolia via Firebase for our apps and we're close to make full app with it soon.
Pros
Very powerful and work fast just like real search engine !
Cons
Very productive for us as a developers to build full search experience in our apps.
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Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Algolia
It's most popular and recommended by the experts !- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Fast Setup
Reviewed on 2021/12/08
I use algolia to give my users a smart search, analyzing I saw that most users never search for the correct term, so algolia was essential to solve this problem, making users actually find what they are looking for.
Pros
Ease of configuration regardless of language, in a few clicks you can already use it and speed in consultations
Cons
I believe it's still a little expensive for an early stage startup
Alternatives Considered
Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Algolia
Fast setup;Response from Algolia
Thank you Silas!

- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 501-1 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Good tool to handle your queries and get info back
Reviewed on 2022/01/06
Good, but couldn't handle our big catalog.
Pros
Worked flawlessly with the search engine and the data it compiled, it did what it had to do.
Cons
We had issues with our data, it was taking too much time to gather the product data and store it. We have over 1 million SKUs of products in 14 storefronts and it was too much for it.
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Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Algolia
Simplicity and good word of mouth.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Awesome AI System
Reviewed on 2022/05/19
It's good to work with.
Pros
Speed at which queried information is delivered, with amazing integrations.
Cons
Some searches can be misleading, if the right information isn't given.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Thanks for the convenience and simple documentation
Reviewed on 2022/05/05
I love Algolia. It makes my Developer life easier especially with flutterflow
Pros
The documentation
The ease of use
The convenience.
It's hard to select one
Cons
[SENSITIVE CONTENT] will ask for more. Maybe you could review the price downwards for developers in Africa

- Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Algolia search works well
Reviewed on 2019/10/08
Overall experience has been regular.
In general we needed around 2 months with 2 experienced wordpress developers to be able to implement Algolia which now works ok.
Pros
The clear analytics and ease to separate accounts when using multiple of them, however this comes at a high cost.
Cons
The difficulty to implement with wordpress.
The high cost.
The lack of flexibility when integrating with other sistems that algolia does not come out of the box for.
Alternatives Considered
Elastic StackReasons for Switching to Algolia
More aggressive sales team with more experience knowing the product.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
We love Algolia
Reviewed on 2017/01/11
We implemented Algolia for hosted search so that users can have a better search experience than the native ones provided by Shopify, WordPress, and Zendesk, and also so they can search across all three at once. We also looked at Swiftype, but we really loved how instant the Algolia search loaded.
Implementation was easy and we always receive great help when we contact Algolia about questions or problems. Some of the integrations we used were in beta and the devs on each worked with us closely and quickly to get us up and really supported us well.
Algolia has been fantastic for our business and we would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking for the best search out there. You can't beat the speed, and the ease of integration and support you receive have made it one of my favorite services that we use.
Pros
Super fast search
Great, responsive, engineer level support
Easy integration and lots of premade plugins
Cons
You can't drag and drop manipulate search results from their dashboard like you can with Swiftype (but you can develop around that if it's an important feature)
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Jekyll Algolia plugin for a personal blog
Reviewed on 2020/10/02
My overall experience has been excellent.
Pros
Installing the Jekyll Algolia plugin was easy.
Simple-to-follow documentation, even for a non-techie like myself. Further, the official Algolia Community forum is a place where I can find answers to questions I might have.
Free of charge (community plan) with no time limit. The Community plan, which is all I need at this stage (my blog currently has fewer than 30 pages in total) is free of charge.
Relevant search results. The Algolia software is able to take into account similar key terms and typo errors.
Search results are instant (hence "InstantSearch"), which I believe is more user-friendly than having to press 'Enter' or clicking/tapping a button to see the search results.
The search user interface looks good.
Cons
Some search terms don't show up in the results, i.e. "no results." I probably need to configure the plugin to optimize site search.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 501-1 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Gamechanger
Reviewed on 2022/01/13
It's completely positive. They respond to support requests in a reasonable amount of time and are amenable to contract upgrades mid-cycle to facilitate unplanned growth.
Pros
Algolia revolutionized our customer experience. Our customer contact volume dropped dramatically almost immediately after implementation. Instant Search and greatly improved results pages reduced the need for assistance. Our users were finally able to search instead of navigate.
Cons
We operate a 100+ location brick and mortar retail chain and function as a BOPIS platform. Each of our locations have a unique assortment of products, so indexing has to treat each item at each location as an individual entry and that increases the time for the index operations.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Very good but very expensive
Reviewed on 2020/04/16
Overall I do love the result but I'm not sure it justifies the expense.
Pros
The sheer speed of the search is astonishing. You get results in next to no time. It's amazing as compared to a mysql query based search that Magento generally offers.
Cons
Cost, it is very very expensive. They also do not offer much in the way of support unless you pay even more. So you are stuck with trying to wade through their documentation which is not written very clearly to get the best results.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
More than just search
Reviewed on 2017/01/11
We've been using Algolia to power search on our local directory in Canada. As we continued to add functionality to different parts of the application a phrase kept popping up "Why not just use algolia for that?". Basically once you start syncing your db with algolia you end up with lots of situations where it's easier (and faster) to just fetch data from Algolia than it is to make a call to the database. Especially when you have client side features.
We're now on their best package, all and all we're really happy with Algolia, and I would recommend them to anyone.
- Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Lightening quick on-site search
Reviewed on 2019/05/01
Algolia search has increased our conversion rates, and provides a much better user experience than any of the other instant search providers we tried. I wouldn't want to move away from algolia as the functionality and potential it offers is so great.
Pros
The speed of the search is outstanding. We have implemented it to allow customers to live search our product catalog of over 10000 items and it handles this impeccably. It also plays well with different frameworks, and the documentation is clear.
Cons
If you were a non-technical user, then the software would be difficult to understand.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Search made easy
Reviewed on 2019/01/05
Pros
Great documentation and absolutely incredible customer support. Their developers answer technical questions, and provide you with custom code to fit your implementation.
Cons
The free plan includes a lot of operations per month, but as soon as you go over the limits, the pricing becomes quite aggressive. I'd rather pay per use, for the exact number of operations performed.

- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Powerful tool for managing your search engine and optimizing results
Reviewed on 2019/01/22
Pros
The flexibility it allows for managing the types of results users get for different types of products.
They allow for many different attributes to control the different products will be displayed on your site.
I would also commend their support team that really helped us optimize the way we've been doing things with a lot of great advice and consultation sessions
Cons
Different variables for optimizing search results can be somewhat confusing, but their great customer support and documentation does a great job helping out when needed
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simple
Reviewed on 2021/10/25
It's great. you guys fully simplify what it means to get up and running with 5 lines of code.
Pros
"Simple" is the word that I can use to describe Algolia. The ease of plugging in a link and getting into executing faster is a plus.
Cons
Pricing is great for a small project. I think having a model review for big enterprise could be great in term of how much it cost us to use you guys; as we are looking into using algolia for some large project.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Algolia is the best option for search
Reviewed on 2020/10/03
Overall, I've absolutely loved it. I think they recently changed their free tier so that it makes more sense and I've really appreciated that. I've been recommending it to every friend that's building a site that relies on search because I feel like it works better than the custom Google search bar, and you have more control and clarity as to what's going on.
Pros
Algolia was dead-simple to set up. It literally took me a few hours from finding it to having it working on my dataset. The queries are easy, setting up rules is easy. It's just fantastic.
Cons
On the free version of PythonAnywhere they have certain URLs blocked and couldn't figure out how to unblock Algolia's separately, which was slightly annoying. In the end I just ended up paying about $5 a month for a PythonAnywhere account that had everything unblocked.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Algolia has become an essential part of our website
Reviewed on 2018/08/01
Pros
What I like most: the React library and the amazing effort the team has put out to make is flawless! More generally, the response time is great and the docs are really helpful
Cons
Importing data in the interface doesn't work on my side, I would also need more tools to migrate/update data based on queries
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 1 001-5 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Give Your Customers Amazing Experiences with Algolia
Reviewed on 2019/04/18
Algolia Search gives our customers unique experiences. They can easily find whatever they need. With Algolia Search, they trust us more
Pros
It helps our customers find exactly what they are looking for. It provides a platform on which we can easily achieve our customer-focus objective. It creates a unique bond between us and our clients
Cons
I love all the features on offer on Algolia. I have no complaints
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Delightful user experience both as an end user but also developer.
Reviewed on 2018/03/28
Easy to setup, cost effective search on the cloud.
Pros
Algolia provides an amazing search platform on the cloud. In literally a few steps and minutes you are able to have a good enough search (excluding time to populate it). I had no experience with other search engines like Elasticsearch before hand and I still found it greatly easy.
The settings can be defined on the dashboard or via the API which can be both a good and a bad as it can cause miss-configuration.
Lastly it is really fast, honestly I worked in commerce shops that build their own search and had to maintain it etc for less than 200k products, now I see that this was well, for no reason.
Cons
As a developer the main problem is the documentation. It lacks, it seems incomplete and although they try to show more languages it would be better to focus on coverage than language adaption.
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Best quick and go solution
Reviewed on 2017/01/12
Algolia is really a blazing fast search solution shorting the time to market. I realy recomande it for user search experience. Now there is one realy missing feature: ability to search by field at search time. Example I have an index with {name, type, location}, search fields are name and location. but for some reason I want to search only in location that match: "t?t?"
This is really a topic for advanced search.