The #1 Platform for Building Search into your Business
4.8/5 (19 reviews)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)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Allowing my users and customers to see the best results regarding their search. All of this as quick as it possibly can be.
Nothing - Can´t complain . I guess the fact that I can´t fully use it but I´m ok with it since my developing team has no real issue with it.
Pros
The fact that it gives our clients the most accurate results in a matter of milliseconds. Algolia continues to improve on a weekly basis and makes our website even better with every update.
Pros
It is extremely easy to use and adopt into your application. The UI UX is also amazing.
Cons
It is quite pricey in comparison with other more hands-on products. Sometimes bugs do appear in database operations.
So easy to get up and running with a ton of search functionality. Costs escalate pretty quickly as you grow. Customer support takes a long time to respond and generally not very helpful.
Pros
easy to use. lots of features.
Cons
too expensive. poor support.
We get results in under a few milliseconds even with a 4 millions users database.
They have a great documentation, it's easy to implement and their customer support is really cool.
Pros
Blazing fast,
Ease to implement
Cons
Nothing
Improved search previews (WP+WC). When it comes to search results, good luck making it work or reaching their support and not being asked to spend thousands upon thousands for basic support (hidden bite fees).
Pros
Potentially good software but... pretty disappointed. Read cons. I wish i could share screenshot of their pricing page and the email i've got from their sales team.
Cons
Dirty an unethical marketing, luring to pay HUGE . Very disappointed. I wish i could share screenshot of their pricing page and the email i've got from their sales team.
I'm the founding developer at a small tech startup, and Algolia is a dream come true for someone with primarily frontend experience. Implementing realtime search with Algolia took me a couple of hours on my mobile app and website, and most of that time was spent making a custom UI. Algolia couldn't be simpler, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who needs to implement a fairly robust search feature.
Pros
Easy, robust, good documentation
Cons
N/A
Overall awesome experience, has a lot of features and just misses few!
Pros
Autocomplete feature is a really great thing in this tool. The user just needs to type the words and the products gets listed below
Cons
Although the auto-complete feature is great but in analytics, we don't get to see what the user has actually typed/searched for. Algolia should think how they can tackle this issue!
Pros
I love the fact it's super quick searching tool, and you can configure it to approximation search, and it still works super well.
Cons
It was not super friendly to work with for a non-technical point of view.
We tried a lot of search services at Socialcam to handle our massive user base (130M+ users).All of them couldn't handle that number of users! It was always super slow.
Algolia handles it without any problem but on top of that, it does it at full speed: we get results back in under a few milliseconds. Last but not least, it does it with error handling, which is great as typos are very frequent on smarphone...
Also - Algolia was very easy to implement, their documentation is great and they have libraries for almost all languages out there.
Pros
Very Fast, Ease of Use, Documentation, Support, Low Price, Reliability, Typos Handling
Cons
Can't find any!
Pros
1. It's fast. 2. It works right, there are no glitches. 3. Best customer service that I've worked with in a long time.
Cons
No cons. It's the best around. It does have a little price tag, but it's well worth it of course....
Pros
- Easy to setup and use in any application or website
- Can be a good solution to avoid configuring yourself an ElasticSearch server
- The community free plan to help open source projects
- Algolia provides extended analytics.
Cons
- As usual with a great service comes a great price
Real tech support, with real people listening to user. The search engine itself is super fast, and the Wordpress plugin keeps on being better every week.
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.