Algolia

About Algolia
Algolia offers an API-first approach to building composable experiences with full control over the front-end and back-end for any device.
A highly reliable, secure and scalable platform that can open the possibilities of contextual search with delightful discoveries throughout your customer journey.
Key benefits of Algolia
Rely on robust APIs
We power 1.5T requests per year for 10K+ customers all over the world. Our APIs are written for performance and scalability first.
For every developer
Use your preferred language to prototype ideas quickly and build production ready experience in no time with documentation and tools for every stack.
Packaged building blocks
Don’t build from scratch and leverage API building blocks to deliver the right content within milliseconds via search, navigation and recommendations.
Improved business results
Get relevant content to the right person in milliseconds. Run continuous optimizations to generate higher conversions across any industry.
True omnichannel capability
Roll out and manage multiple consistent experiences across different brands, divisions and portfolios from one platform.
Improved competitiveness
Implement a new digital experience in days instead of months or iterate on offerings without impacting your backend.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great search experience for the end user
Reviewed on 2024/10/03
Positive in the sense that it's pretty flexible and allows you to roll out search functions that...
Positive in the sense that it's pretty flexible and allows you to roll out search functions that are way better than the native features platforms usually offer.
Pros
Great solution for enabling smart search on our help center and main website, it helped a lot with usability for the end user, and it was not too difficult to implement.
Cons
No cons, it still required our tech team to roll out (so it wasn't exactly something I could have done myself), so I guess that's a small con, but not a big deal since the implementation was easy.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great Facets and Search but takes a while to setup
Reviewed on 2024/07/12
We wanted something to visually merchandise the site automatically based on user's preferences and...
We wanted something to visually merchandise the site automatically based on user's preferences and best selling / in stock items. Algolia can do this really well but its taken a long time to build into Shopify and configure.
Pros
Its replaced our collection pages on Shopify with very fast loading categories of products that respond quickly to filters. The sorting strategies also work well for New in and best selling, removing the need to manually merchandise categories.
Cons
Its not a straight forward setup out of the box and requires quite a bit of building into your Shopify template.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
The easiest way to integrate search into your website
Reviewed on 2025/01/07
Pros
The ease to install the software, in a few minutes, you can create a searchbar for your website that works very well
Cons
The pricing is quite expensive for smaller businesses which don't rely that much on their website.
- 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...
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: 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...
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.
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More aggressive sales team with more experience knowing the product.Algolia FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Algolia.Q. What type of pricing plans does Algolia offer?
Algolia offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$0.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
*A unit represents 1,000 search requests /mo and the capacity to index up to 1,000 records. -------- Pay-as-you-go-pricing: Simple usage based pricing with no long term commitments. Volume discounts: Discounts trigger as your usage grows, so you always get a fair price. Committed-use discounts: Speak with Sales for access to discounts for committed usage.
Q. Who are the typical users of Algolia?
Algolia has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Algolia support?
Algolia supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Algolia support mobile devices?
Algolia supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Algolia integrate with?
Algolia integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Commerce, Android 11, Angular, Bubble, Gatsby, Higher Logic Vanilla, Laravel ecommerce, Meteor, Netlify, React2, Salesforce Platform, Scala, Shopify, Symfonee Ticketing System, Tray.io, WordPress, Zendesk Suite, django CMS, iOS14
Q. What level of support does Algolia offer?
Algolia offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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