Algolia Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

The ease with which we can set up products with nested structure in Algolia is commendable

The syntactical structure to search an item based on a nested property is quite unique and not easy to learn

We are developing product listing feature based on faceted search on our e commerce platform. Algolia provides that feature and it's low latency which fits our requirements

Speed of data is everything in web and Algolia provide results back in milliseconds! Despite having nearly 2 million records, Algolia allows users to search results quickly and return the most relevant results accurately. Using DSN's (A Search CDN), we are able to provide these speeds globally. My developers were able to develop a solution that intergrated into our current framework within two weeks thanks to the great documentation and JS library.

So far I have yet to find a downside of Algolia!

Our last Site Search provider was Swiftype. The lack of development with Swiftype meant our search offering was lagging behind our competitors, the relevance was poor and the configuration was limited in comparison to Algolia. Algolia provides us with better tools and analytics to improve the relevance for a user.

It provides data to make the decision making easy and accurate. Also, provides insights and tools to create a better experiencies for our users.

ther'es nothing in particular I dislike about Algolia.

It allows us to create a better and enhances search experiencies for our users .

I like the fact that Algolia is consistently blazing fast.

I'd like better options for sorting and more granularity around build time metrics.

We offer a way for our users to search for their content, for which we index related metadata in Algolia.

Really fast and powerful Based on number of requests, not items in a requests Filter by multiples filter

Loading state management in react hooks It will go from idle to stale to loading, then go back to idle to stale and loading again without any apparent reason The hooks is quite difficult to understand and implement

Fast search engine Recommendation engine Speed to render items

You can easily merchandise products with click of a mouse

Manual pinning of products behaves wierdly at times which is a bit furstrating

Visual merchandising is very flexible in Algolia and it helps us to influence customer purhcase behaviour

Algolia allows us to iterate optimizations in our search experience quickly and creates visibility around painpoints our customers might be experiencing.

It can be a bit more costly than managing your own search service on another platform

Algolia is helping improve customers ability to find events or performers that they are searching for. A better search success rate leads to a better user expereince and higher likelihood they purchase on our site or app.

The algolia interface has a very intuitive UX to easily explore data and find out insights which i quickly need to know. The varirity of features is very broad. The customer support could help out quickly when trying to solve problems.

I did not discover any downsides yet, bu i have also only been using it since a couple of months. I heared that there were some implementation issues..

We use algolia for our complex filtering and search mechanisms

Algolia is the easiest search engine to setup with a greate backend to configure everything. Fast search engine easy to integrate. Really fast and good customer support The search had an amazing effect on our sales performance because customers easily find what they are looking for.

A lot of functionalities are behind paywalls

User searching I a +1400 products catalog and finding what they are looking for

The flexibility and how easy to use it is out of the box. The indexing is very good and not expensive

To be honest there isnt a single thing i dislike at the moment . its very stable and works 100%

We use Algolia to index huge datasets and then be able to quickly find the data our applications needs

Algolia is easy to integrate with and use. I had used it at a previous job and it was simple to set up.

We would like more customability for our search indexes.

At my previous company, we used Algolia to set up search indexes for our search page.

Algolia is very versatile. We can easily make AB tests, verify which indexes have good results and which don't and easily re-rank the search to put the most relevant items in a better position.

Algolia is a pricy solution and a few things require a bit more knowledge of how the tool works, such as the creation of rules

Algolia is easily re-ranking the products that have a higher conversion rate and also making it easy to create indexes to test hipothesis

Algolia is the best search tool available there right now. Its API is superfast and is working like a charm. The API is remarkably optimised and integrated seamlessly with our environment setup.

There is nothing to dislike about Algolia. There are some minor issues as they have made their dashboard UI is bit clunky. This resulted in more struggle to understand what e are doing sometimes entirely.

We are building many Ecommerce solutions for the business, and the one particular need with every Ecommerce store is the search functionality. Algoiia is saving us from the headache of creating custom search endpoints. We are utilising the power of Algolia to generate a search API.

- Easy-to-understand documentation - Easy to load data and try out various queries - Great UX on their console

- the analytics APIs were a bit slow - I would prefer to check what the estimated cost is based on current data on that index. When creating new replicas for the sorting feature

Algolia helps our users to search for specific data within our platform. We use it in multiple projects namely nft marketplace, searching streamers, videos and other media content

There are several advantages of using Algolia - 1. Easy to integrate and understand. 2. Provides client side JS library to include and create a boilerplate for performing search on platforms.

Some of the features of Algolia, like dynamic re-ranking and artificial intelligence, are paid. Aloglia also limits the number of records you can index and can become costly very quickly if not used properly.

We index all our documentation text into Algolia and create indices on top of it. We customise the default algorithm provided by Algolia as per our needs. Search results are retrieved quickly.

It's beneficial in improving search performance on the website

Some query-based functionality needs improve. Ex: Bookings-based website

Website search functionality implementations.

An experienced Javascript developer integrated the Algolia search engine integration into the Jenkins plugins site. The implementation was smooth. It continues to provide valuable results. We review the most widely used search terms and the searches that return no results. Those results have helped us improve the content and the structure of the site. We've used search results to refine our documentation development plans. We used Algolia DocSearch for the Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io). We made a few simple changes to our base page and the search integration was complete. No Javascript development skills were required. We pasted their examples into our base page. It worked. We've been delighted with the DocSearch experience for users and documentation maintainers.

I've not yet found a way to tune or optimize the DocSearch results. We're not seeing the same reports from DocSearch as we receive from the integration that was done for the Jenkins plugins site. We'd love to have more ways to understand what users are seeking on the documentation site and more ways to tune the experience for those users.

The Jenkins plugins site included an outdated internal implementation of a site search. It provided few metrics and did not help us understand our users. The Algolia search implementation regularly reports search traffic. The Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io) did not have integrated search. Algolia DocSearch provides integrated search inside the documentation site without requiring us to maintain indexes or host services to answer queries. We continue to deliver a static web site and the user can search the site contents from within the search box on the page.

I find the algolia documentation very helpful

I dont think there is something i dislike

We use algolia for ecommerce search from our integrations

Easy to integrate and great search quality.

Nothing, product is great. Pricing is also fair.

Indexing documentation and expose search to our site

I like the best part of Algolia is that it integrates with various platforms and frameworks, including popular content management systems (CMS) like WordPress and Shopify.

after all, Algolia is a powerful and reliable search engine as a service that is suitable for a variety of applications and websites. However, it may not be the best fit for projects with a large amount of data or those that require offline functionality

Its fast search capabilities are achieved through a distributed search network and real-time indexing, which helped me in my medium-scale project and for search index, it is beneficial to me.

Following are the best things about Algolia 1) Easy to integrate - as Algolia comes with SDK for multiple languages 2) Search Insight- It also tells about searches that did not have results. 3) Ranking and sorting - You can customize search with different facets 4) Extensive documentation

There is literally nothing I can think of. Algolia fits 100% with our use case and fulfills our all the requirements.

We're using Algoli as a primary internal search engine in one of our projects, And we need Insights into what people are searching for the most. Algolia does an excellent job solving this problem for us and provides us with valuable insights.

The back office especially is easy to handle. Also, there is an academy for beginners who want to level up their skills :)

I would say that there are some points to review rather than things that i dislike about Algolia. Until now, the tool is really helpful and brings excellent data.

Algolia solves problems related to search and data, but also problems regarding the search speed. In my job, that is really important to have access to this data, and help users use the search bar in a correct way.

Algolia offers a modern alternative to search functionalities with easy indexing, good documentation, and typo tolerance. A significant benefit of it is that you can use it for everything and implement it with most, if not all, popular coding languages. If your project is written with PHP, JS, or even React, you can quickly pick it up and create endless possibilities. I like that it allows me to work with PHP and have the option to create UI components rapidly. Another benefit of Algolia is the huge community of developers who can help you if you struggle with something, just jump into the Algolia community forum and ask, or even tag some Algolia Team members - they're always happy to help you as long as you describe your issue properly and provide details where you stuck.

Honestly, there aren't many things that I dislike, although a recent change in the Dashboard UI made some options more difficult to access than the previous UI/UX revisions. If you're working on some demo project, the trial will be enough, but if you start using it in some big project, your bill might be an issue, but if your website/project generates good revenue, this should pay for itself.

Helps with providing users with the best User Experience during search interaction on the main website and allowed us to handle a lot of queries with different sets of filters as well as sorting and suggestions behind the scene. Algolia helped replace native WordPress search and allowed me to expand it with our main search database to provide users with product suggestions based on the typed text on a company blog, which one place a big part for us.

The Algolia admin console is incredibly powerful - you can create indices with ease, custom rules for search results, custom field weighting, fuzzy matching and so much more. The option to try for free is also very welcome!

I've not found anything I'd describe as negative during my use of Algolia thus far.

Algolia makes implementing performant search a breeze for JAMstack applications. It's so simple to configure your indices, and specify priority fields and ordering rules - plus they have libraries/SDKs for many front-end/back-end technologies.

It's so easy to implement. Super intuitive. Very fast to deliver results and affordable.

For what I used until now, I did not miss or dislike anything.

I needed to offer an easy way for my users to find content on the platform. Algolia allowed us to do it. It was fast and easy to implement, a great experience, and affordable.

We implemented Algolia for an NFP (not-for-profit) organisation among others. With the NFP implementation, we used Algolia for Open Source which allows our client to try out Algolia before moving into more advanced features. We were able to index content from a traditional CMS and provide a fast search and listing service using Algolia's basic features.

The process of attributing Algolia's free open-source plan was interesting. Providing an embeddable piece of HTML and images would have made this process so much easier.

Internal site search, geo-based search and listing categorised pages.

Algolia's team is very committed to generating results in the integration and use of the tool on our platform. We achieved great results with Algolia and we are impressed with the performance and how easy it is to integrate and use. We recommend Algolia.

Costs are a little bit high at this moment for Brazilian currency.

We started using CloudSearch, from AWS, and creating a team to tune it. But we quickly understood that with Algolia we would achieve better results and faster. The tool is amazing.

Algolia has an easy to use more than one search page template and provides the needed technical support to help new users set up their Algolia powered search page.

Algolia currently doesn't offer different paid tiers of technical support apart from the user accounts. Some projects require higher level Algolia technical expertise and right now basic users are not able to access that type of help. I trust Algolia for this type of help, and feel uneasy trusting random freelancers with my data and project.

Biomedical data is expansive and giving users rapidly searchable summaries of what is out there is extremely beneficial for my research purposes and those of my platform's global user community.

Algolia requires no backend management whatsoever. It's built for developers and speed to market.

It's not a cheap product but more than worth it. Pays for itself.

Taking all the pain out of custom search. I run an online marketplace with hundreds of thousands of products and Algolia manages it all with zero configuration from our team.

Simple and intuitive dashboard as well as super easy to start. I was able to get my search into production in minutes

Pricing can get out of hand if not careful.

Site wide search