Algolia Reviews & Product Details

Algolia helps my team and I to efficiently search through a large database and provide an impeccable customer experience. The InstantSearch.js + React Hooks API is unrivaled.

The 100kb file size limit for records can be a little difficult to work around. I understand the concerns behind not letting people "game" the billing system. However, it would be most optimal if users are billed additionally per >100kb record, rounded up to the nearest 100 and divided by 100. (e.g., a 140kb record would be 2x the price of a regular record because 140 rounded up becomes 200, divided by 100 becomes 2; similarly, a 540kb record would be billed at 6x the regular rate).

Algolia's automatic indexing of Firestore objects helps me because I don't have to manually reindex my data. I am more productive and can focus on other things.

Great support for open-source libraries, powerful configuration options, awesome reporting insights.

Some issues when integrating InstantSearch with the Next.js router

Fast and accurate search of thousands of documents. Insights into how our user's are engaging with search.

It has a good developer experience and performs well.

The client-side library size can be cumbersome for smaller apps. This can be circumvented by using server-side scripting, but it would nice to have an even lighter-weight library.

We are using Algolia for a conference and want to provide instant search through all the events for our users.

Great API, easy to use and figure out. We're an e-commerce site and it did a great job capturing all of our info and making it searchable. I had ideas to build the same thing from scratch, but glad we chose algolia.

The documentation -- especially for Vue JS front-end stuff, is kind of all over the place and a bit disorganized. So it's a little challenging to have junior engineers figure out what's going on.

Site-wide search is how we use it, and it's solving that problem for us in a big way. The shopify integration is OK -- not perfect, and documentation for a custom shopify is a bit lacking. For example, can't seem to find documentation on how to get algolia to take over our collections pages.

The combination with Bubble.io to create powerfull search features in apps.

Nothing to declare to my point of view, everything is very clear.

Making complex research with multiple fields in a database

I love how easy it is to integrate with Algolia. The documentation and the libraries are excellent, and tweaking the search rules to handle typos and ranking can be quickly done from their website. The search speed is better than with Elasticsearch.

Algolia changed its pricing around two years ago, and the new pricing is more expensive for our job portal because we have a lot of GET requests and few POST requests and records. We have planned to mitigate this by adding caching with Redis so that retrieving a single object will be done with Redis.

We are a job portal, and search speed and accuracy are essential for us. Using Algolia saved us development time compared to building an Elasticsearch cluster, and the "search as you type" feature was a nice bonus.

The latency allows us to not worry about optimization and allows us to build actual applications, this was evident when we went from our custom solution which was very bulky and complex, hard to maintain, to algolia and the results were clearly in favor of algolia

The interface can at times be daunting, especially in the beginning, maybe a product tour would help. Also would love to get tips and tricks, maybe a newsletter would be nice to have

We needed to make a property search with geolocations, initially solved with postgis and Postgres, soon turned to be very complicated and slow

Dashboard is very easy to use in all its functionalities. There is a complete set of function to manage every aspect without writing a single line of code. You need to do things programmatically? Algolia offers easy to use libraries written in many languages (javascript, php, java, etc...) to have full control of every aspect of index/crawler configuration / interrogation. Also everything is well documented in their docs. You need any help? Support team replies fast and with accuracy. How service works? They accomplish their promises: index queries resolves very fast in every scenario, even with thousands of objects in a single index. Your customer will have a very instant search experience.

Crawler part is a little bit a black box, even if configuration is well explained. You cannot make ajax calls in it's execution (even if, to be honest, it is not recommended at all). There is no xls/csv export of crawler logs and so they are not so easy to analyze through the dashboard. Query suggestion part maybe is lacking of some custom configurations and docs are not so clear as other functionalities.

Provide an ecommerce with a instant search user experience.

I was searching for a fast module that could easily integrate with my personal React-GatsbyJs website, that could integrate with Contentful and update searchable material via webhooks; Gatsby docs make the overall process easy for me and for my development team, in addiction Algolia platform is easy to use and it's the best described module to integrate.

I don't find many dislikes about Algolia, because the Free tier is made for someone like me.

With Algolia and React Instant Search, a pre-made component, I can provide the best experience for users of my webapplication.

the search and the speed access to the data, also the easy setup to linked to the firebase.

The harder part of the process is the move in my case cause I come from a different country, but Algolia has made this so easy and smooth for me that it’s really not a problem, plus I get to start a new life which is always an exciting adventure.

the load of the data is much faster than loading the data from the firebase

Algolia represents a huge advance compared to our Ecommerce site's original search tool. It delivers much more refined and relevant search results nearly instantaneously, making the shopper's experience much more productive and enjoyable.

It's so highly technical that I must involve our web developer to implement almost any tweak to search logic, other than some basic stuff I can accomplish on my own.

Our original site search tool was based on simple word-search, so it would display any product whose description contained the searched word, rendering search results almost useless. In contrast, Algolia returns search results that are way more useful. Our next step will be to index our blog and FAQ pages, in addition to our products, since oftentimes our visitors are searching for help on a topic, not just for a product.

API's are flexible and easy to implement. Service is excellent!

It'd be nice to be able to setup multiple personalization strategies.

Decreasing no result searches and helping customers find products more easily.

User experience for online customers. For our clients, their customers' experiences are very important considerations when it comes to search functionality. Algolia presents visual search results which are both attractive and have clear potential for conversion to sales.

Would like more features/flexibility. There have been some aspects to the application for e-commerce that still have room for improvement.

Attractive search presentation, speed of search and intelligent search/filter suggestions.

This service is really very fast, it’s unbelievable.

There’s nothing negative that comes to mind

Children can find what they want to learn about blazingly fast

Easy to use and integrate with Magento to provide our customers a great UX.

Pricing plans can be tough when moving between tiers.

Algolia provides search for our website and allows us to quickly provide a great experience. Other search providers can't match the Algolia experience.

Incredibly fast, easy to use. Very configurable and transparent in usage. Great documentation. Never have to deal with ElasticSearch.

- Places API isn't very robust. - Limited to 1000 records per page. - Expensive for lots of operations.

We are building a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of internet infrastructure products and services. The search experience of our site is powered by Algolia's autocomplete. Our map is powered by Mapbox, with data coming from Algolia as well. Working with Algolia takes away so many pain points that we don't have to think about search algorithms or other problems startups like us face.

The free version is up to thousand of entries and it make it possible to validate your business model while launching a new collaborative website using a browser without having to invest a lot of money.

Not in french yet so some features are not easy to understand and implement

With Algolia we have been able to offer our users a search experience among different cities or visit places we have registered in algolia

A fantastic tool for Online visual merchandising

At times not so user friendly and hence lags a bit

Ease of online merchandising which helps to make our sites more user friendly

It really helps organise and sort my assortment really well.

The pricing could be a bit better. It is a very expensive tool and there are cheaper substitutes.

To recommend the best performing product to people searching for the most random search queries

Easy to configure and test: the dashboard works well

Still requires significant data organization from the user - better synonyms and automated product categorization would help

Enabling Algolia search for our product catalog in multiple languages has improved our search CTR by 40%