Algolia Reviews & Product Details

With Algolia, I could build an optimized search engine to look for real estates with many filters involved.

The learning curve is steep... it was difficult to learn the internals of InstantSearch

We provide an Algolia search engine to our clients, so they can look for the best home for them

Search results are incredibly fast. Setup was fairly straight forward and didn't take very long. The re-indexing speed is also very good. Pricing is fair, overall its a pretty damn impressive service and I'm looking forward to implementing it on other projects in the future.

As with anything new there's terminology which can be a little bit confusing at first. The documentation took a few reads until the information and processes stuck with me. Other than that there's nothing to complain about.

Fast e-commerce product search with rich data results.

It's hosted, flexible, and scales very well. It's what ElasticSearch should have been. You can throw pretty much whatever data you'd want to at it, and figure out the indexing later. Facets make searching very slick, and the fact that it's hosted means I simply don't need to worry about Indexing. Anyone who doesn't use Algolia is just living in the past.

It can get expensive, but still not as expensive as running OS software on AWS. The only *feature* issues we've had is that it doesn't let you perform cross-index searches. In our specific use-case, we have to duplicate data into multiple indexes because we want customer-specific data (restricted to specific customers of ours) along with our specified data in the same search. It also requires a separate index for each sort order. That means no ad-hoc sorting (you can't specify to return results in a specific order at search time).

I've used this now for 3 separate production projects across 2 completely different companies. It gives us blazingly fast search and faceting across millions of records. We use this to generate statistics, as well as provide our customers with results based on their specific searches. We have an entire CRM platform build on top of Algolia.

Is very easy compared with competitors, and the library support for JS

Documentation is better now but it could be better

We have many autocompletes inputs and Algolia helps us with that. I don't have to worry about search anymore

Incredibly fast search; fantastic developer support and documentation; some really great out of the box options as well

Non tech users may have trouble customizing themselves without dev help beyond basic settings if they use a plug and play app (of which there are many for Algolia -- they work great and are well documented, but someone wanting to do a lot of customizations themselves without technical know how may require a developer).

We have universal search experiences for our clients that pull in from multiple platforms like Zendesk, Shopify, WordPress, and more and work on both web and native mobile apps. Algolia delivers results insanely fast and makes developing all of these elements out easy and reliable.

Great documentation, great explanation of the technology they developed and how it works. Really nice explanation of how they approach high availability

Very little downsides. Some implementations can become costly, but this one was not. We really appreciate the development time that went into the Shopify app. Most people just make an app in the Shopify store and leave it, aloglia actually put considerable time into the app and has done a really nice job of improving the app over time.

We are solving for e-commerce search. Our existing solution had many reliability problems. Greater reliability is the biggest upside.

Java, JavaScript, Ktlin and Zendesk are just some of the solutions with which I have an excellent integration with Algolia, there are many more integration options that I am currently working with and I can continue adding many more integrations without problems, I just need to send a message to the support of Algolia and they kindly provide me with the tools to integrate them. By requesting support help I can complete the most complex tasks in just a few minutes or depending on the complexity of the integration in a few hours.

They must add many more customization features and they must modernize their platform, sometimes I dislike their outdated look.

The positive since we started using Algolia in the company are summarized in two things, the search patterns and the customer experience. It is very simple when the client is satisfied, all the members of my team are also satisfied, Algolia allows us to improve and automate our search engine in a few days.

I like that it is very easy to use and add information, in addition the platform is very intuitive and the searches are very fast. The technical support service responds to us very quickly and resolves problems immediately, the truth is very responsible.

Algolia developers thought of everything, because so far we have not seen errors. They may exist, but we are very happy with this software and we would like it to continue that way.

I love that we are better known every day, because our reputation increases as we enter new products and our customers find their specifications without many complications, because the search engine is very fast and the interface builds confidence, I think it is perfectly made for the user .

The developer tools and easy integration w Heroku allowed us the ability to launch quickly.

The initial testing plans were I believe a little pricey but I believe they have new plans now that accommodate for this.

Searching through ecommerce products can be intense and finding the best related product helps us generate revenue quickly.

Simply put, it saved us a heap of development time and budget. We could focus on other components knowing the search was sorted.

Customizing it to run some api operations requires some skills; still working out how we can do that better.

We had to get to market quickly and it saved us development time and money.

- Easy of use. We (2 developers) had no experience with search indexes before, but got up and running in 2 hours, backend and frontend. - Performance. We still have few users, but searching 15k records takes 4ms on average. 40ms max. - Pricing is OK. Other search platforms like Elastic Search will cost you less per number of records indexed, but you have to manage more stuff by yourself to keep everything in good shape.

Documentation lack some real world examples and best practices, like how to keep a Postgres DB in sync with Algolia. Free as starter tiers have low records limit (10k and 50k). We have a few concerns about securing data. Some real case scenarios in the Docs would also help us. Like, what are the guidelines to implement Algolia to index sensitive information?

We have a SaaS and Algolia is currently being used for searching people records. Performance is great. We intend to use it in more places in the future.

I have used various search systems including Sphinx, Solr, direct DB integrations etc. but nothing has been as robust and performant as Algolia. It just works very well.

At this time we have nothing to critique as it's perfect for our needs.

A portion of our infrastructure was used for search which we were able to swap out with Algolia.

Vendor relationships always tend to promise more than they deliver. This is one of the first one that has delivered as much (or more!) than was promised. I'm amazed at the performance of the Algolia system. Blazing fast, accurate, relevant, immediately updated, elegant, easy to implement, a breeze to customize. It really couldn't be much better.

Not much. There were a few small gaps in the documentation, but that has been the extent so far of anything negative.

The motivator for switching to Algolia was the expiration of our Google Search Appliance. However, now that we've switched, I'm wishing we'd made the jump a lot sooner. What a great platform! Our users are experiencing DRAMATIC improvements in search speed and relevance, and we're looking at all sorts of ways to leverage Algolia for other business needs, from personalization to content categorization.

Setup & configuration was accomplished in an afternoon You get instant feedback / results No need to hire resources & spend time on infra to support lighting quick searches The extra analytics about what was searched on is also great

It requires some thought and/or additional dev work to work around how the pricing model is defined in operations (i.e. when we need to refresh the index data).

Algolia makes it dead-simple, quick and fun for our users to perform the mundane task of searching across the hundreds of thousands of athletes so that they can then get to the juicy part of checking out their race-performance analytics!

No real set up from a dev perspective and is incredibly fast. The apis and tools make for real ease of integration with very little effort.

The pricing is steep as the number of documents and collections increase. The initial design was kind of ugly but since then the improvements have been consistent and nice to look at.

The search we run is lightning fast and reliable. The cost to integrate into our app is incredibly low.

I'm impressed with Algolia's search speed when entering product information. We have several thousand products and the search engine responds almost simultaneously as our customers type characters.

The cost is a little high. The pricing tiers are nice but the thresholds are set too low. Currently, our website is for niche products. I could see it getting quite expensive on more popular websites.

Our customers can find what they're looking for easily and quickly. I think a responsive website translates to a higher level of professionalism and ultimately trust in our products. Showing the product image and displaying the price also improves our customers experience. One of the intangible benefits from this is it reduces calls to our customer service. Finally, it's helpful to know which products our customers search for the most. We pay close attention to what our users look for so that we can focus on those products specifically. In many cases where a customer didn't purchase our product after searching, we found that the image or text on the product was confusing or incomplete. We have had several instances where, after improving the product description or image, sales on their product increased.

Algolia is so easy to use that it makes implementing enterprise search an absolute breeze. It offers us almost all of the benefits of elasticsearch, but in a turnkey solution.

Nothing, so far. Elasticsearch is more configurable but we find that we're happy with trading off some of that control for ease of implementation/administration.

We're dedicated to shipping low-latency solutions throughout our product suite, so Algolia's speed, combined with things like its typo-tolerance features, makes it very user-friendly.

Not having to manage my own search infrastructure including software setups and performance

Having to manage duplicates / already indexed items in my own databases

Search suggestions, SERP Benefits are great user experience in terms of performance and result prioritisation. Internal benefits are we are saving hires to manage search infrastructure

It's easy to use and plenty of SDKs are provided so there's is one for everyone. Setup and configuration are done through a clear dashboard which also offers great insights into search performance. Search results are being delivered instantaneously. They're so fast that using a search index for search query completion is working perfectly. The pricing is very reasonable. For testing and small volume sites, there is even a free tier. Support also is great. The turnaround for a fix in one of the provided SDKs was less than 24h.

There is nothing that I truly dislike about algolia.

It's saving us the effort to build our own search infrastructure. We have no relevant skills available in-house, so having such a service offered at a reasonable cost is helping is to get our products to the market a lot faster.

Super easy to setup, configure and make on-the-fly changes and has dramatically improved the search experience for our customers and staff trying to find products and articles on our website

Nothing to dislike. It's amazing! Nothing more I can add

The search logic that I personally developed was very basic, didn't understand plurals, spelling mistakes and was slow. Algolia has solved all of this.