Algolia Reviews & Product Details

Product perfectly designed and awesome support team - very reactive and so efficient.

Product is still quite technical to implement, but is very well made.

I wanted a search engine for the documentation of my open source software. I was perfect to manage search on different version of the documentation.

Algolia gives me a far better search product than one I could engineer myself, and I had it up and running in a day.

The terminology they use in the dashboard can be confusing at first. Luckily, I spend very little time in the dashboard, so it isn't a major issue.

We use Algolia for product and user searches on our app and website, as well as for several internal tools. It's great for pretty much any search use-case that I've encountered so far.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Performance! It's where Algolia shines, they can deliver p99 < 10ms response times, the search experience feels instant, making a huge difference for our customers. They have many available SDKs for all sorts of clients which makes it very easy to integrate with web and mobile apps. Another great feature is the geo-replication where you can deploy your data to more datacenters and make the search faster all over the world, be aware that this cost extra though.

Pricing. For an early stage and growing startup it can be challenging to pay their price. We have to constantly purge old records and optimize our systems to decrease the number of operations which causes some extra development overhead for us.

We're using Algolia to power all of our search: from sports events calendar to digital asset management. With Algolia our customers can have a centralized view of their assets and it becomes searchable instantly, streamlining their content distribution.

- The way you can easily setup Algolia, populate an index and start doing mockups with instantsearch. - A lot of SDKs allow choosing the approach that better suits your use case. - Not needing to spend a lot of time and money in infrastructure or software architecture.

- Analytics are a tricky thing to do and don't work right out of the box. - Developer documentation isn't 100% complete and synced across sources so some things have to be inferred.

We needed a quick and easy way to launch a search feature for our customers and brokers, since using Algolia we have been able to iterate in the feature with reduced development time and able to change it easily.

Algolia is easy to set up and customize for your individual needs.

I was a little disappointed that they are no longer supporting the Jekyll plugin.

I was able to build a search that displays results from our marketing site, blog, and documentation site.

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