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What do you like best about Algolia?

It’s a better way to search our site, our audience is able to locate relevant pieces of our content even if those pages were created 4 years ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The setup process was not very easy, although algolia was responsive to emails and did help us set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to track what new content we should create and see what old content people are searching for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia Overview

What is Algolia?

Algolia is a leading provider of AI-powered search and discovery solutions, trusted by over 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers worldwide. Following its acquisition of Search.io, Algolia became the world’s first and only hybrid search engine to combine keyword and vector search in a single API—enabling retailers to capture 70% more long-tail demand at 90% lower cost. Powering 1.75 trillion searches annually, Algolia continues to innovate with its 2025 launch of a breakthrough trifecta of AI-powered ranking capabilities: Advanced Dynamic Reranking, Multi-Signal Ranking, and Dynamic Reranking for Revenue. These advancements help businesses optimize for relevance, conversions, and revenue—delivering fast, scalable, and intelligent search experiences across all digital touchpoints.

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Product Description

Algolia is an API built for developers that delivers relevant results in your mobile apps and websites from the first keystroke.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Other companies such as Elasticsearch and Solr work well out-of-the-box for document search, but delivering a fully-featured, user-friendly search with them requires a lot of additional investment.

Algolia’s highly-optimized infrastructure is distributed across the world in 15 regions and 47 data centers. Algolia provides a 99.99% reliability guarantee and can deliver a fast search to users wherever in the world they’re connecting from. Elasticsearch and Solr do not automatically distribute to multiple regions, and doing so can incur significant server costs and devops resources.


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2012
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818 employees on LinkedIn®
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Algolia is a leading provider of AI-powered search and discovery solutions, trusted by over 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers worldwide. Following its acquisition of Search.io, Algolia became the world’s first and only hybrid search engine to combine keyword and vector search in a single API—enabling retailers to capture 70% more long-tail demand at 90% lower cost. Powering 1.75 trillion searches annually, Algolia continues to innovate with its 2025 launch of a breakthrough trifecta of AI-powered ranking capabilities: Advanced Dynamic Reranking, Multi-Signal Ranking, and Dynamic Reranking for Revenue. These advancements help businesses optimize for relevance, conversions, and revenue—delivering fast, scalable, and intelligent search experiences across all digital touchpoints.


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Recent Algolia Reviews

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Bob T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Well worth the investment"
We have improved our site search results and what is being delivered to our customers. Also, their customer support is fantastic and there are a nu...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Good, while there are areas for improvement"
Good UI, fast integration, comprehensive documentation, multiple platforms support. Great search engine in general. Nice customer support.
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Eric M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best in class Search experience"
Algolia is a robust and extremely efficient search tool. The dedication and availability of senior engineers and product owners is essential and ma...

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Monitor your key indicators in an intuitive dashboard, from searches to CTR to conversion. Visualize changes over time and understand how your search performs at-a-glance.
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Algolia Pros and Cons

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Verified User in Broadcast Media
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Good UI, fast integration, comprehensive documentation, multiple platforms support. Great search engine in general.

Nice customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Quite expensive. Does not supports caching mechanisms. No alert configuration, just 1 common. Limited query logic. especially "A OR (B AND C) OR (D AND E) " is not supported.

Proper Array of object filtering on multiple fields is not supported. You need to created multiple records with the same asset and unique objects in each record form the array.

Query suggestion does not help in our case. as its basically the "most popular terms" for today. Some terms can be valid now but not on the next day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

helps to improve videos with fast, relevant search, reducing user frustration and bounce rates. solves problems like poor search UX, low conversion rates, and difficulty navigating large datasets. Especially in our content platforms. Can also boost engagement by connecting users to what they want instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

1. Managing user search data easily and optimizing it to provide accurate results.

2. Recommend users with the exact similar products they are searching for.

3. User search analytics that gives in depth information about the products viewed and clicked for a specific time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Nothing as such but the implementation docs and examples need to be updated and should be easily understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia provides ability to query search results in few secs as compared to earlier elastic search. The algolia dashboard makes it efficient to manage how the search results are displayed and ordered with respect to specific query rules. Also it gives detailed analytics about the users search query and provides accurate output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EM
Head Of Business Intelligence, Traffic Marketing, Ecommerce Category management
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is a robust and extremely efficient search tool. The dedication and availability of senior engineers and product owners is essential and makes Algolia best in class i technology as well as services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Some of the new products are not as practical as the core search engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia offers fast and efficient search with good control on recall and great accuracy. The rules are a combination of dynamic and flexible options to optimize results. Algolia works well in merchandising too. We use Algolia across dozens of ecommerce sites and Apps, within different categories from Grocery to Furniture, Fashion and Beauty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BT
E-Commerce Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

We have improved our site search results and what is being delivered to our customers. Also, their customer support is fantastic and there are a number of features that bring the platform to life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The cost limits only certain types of businesses to be able to afford the Algolia services. So it may not be the right solution for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

With our former search solution, we weren't able to pull in the deep levels of attributes that we now have with Algolia. That has been extremely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AL
Project Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

We had several sales calls with Algolia to determine it was the right product for our client. Then when we entered into an agreement we had very detailed weekly onboarding sessions to teach us about the tool. The dashboard is very user friendly and there's so many different features. We're excited about the level of control we'll have with this tool compared to the default site search tools through a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress, or ElasticSearch via AWS. This is nice because we can see why a search is ranking a certain way right through the dashboard and will save us time from having to do trial and error to make the site search as relevant as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

There are so many features that it can seem overwhelming to start at first. We are also one of the first clients using this in a non-ecommerce way so there were not as many uses cases we could reference. The tool is expensive but worth it so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving the website admins more control over the site search. We can come up with our search results ranking strategy and manage it in the Algolia dashboard. It's way more transparent than the basic site search ranking rules we'd get through Drupal or Wordpress. Then there's the AI powered part that pays attention to what users are searching for and personalizes their website experience from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NC
Associate Product Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Easy to use index design and with the analytics features to track CTR and also conduct A/B experiment from the platform itself.

The platform can be easily used to monitor search regularly to see daily / monthly reports. Analytics Insights can help improve search using simple ranking and sorting attributes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Faced challenges regarding updating the records in the index. Also, call support is not available even in premium paid plan.This is a bummer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making enterprise search easy to experiment with analyse and improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DC
Head of Marketing
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is a highly scalable search solution that integrates seamlessly with other composable technologies. It allows for effective collaboration between product, marketing, and engineering teams, streamlining the process of managing search ranking strategies. I’ve found their OOTB tools for A/B testing, search ranking management, and front-end components to be incredibly valuable in reducing development time while improving search performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Understanding Algolia’s pricing and how costs scale can be a challenge at times. The cost structure isn’t always immediately clear, which makes it harder to forecast as projects grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia excels at connecting users to content and products quickly through fast search functionality and personalized recommendations. This capability drives user engagement and, ultimately, growth for businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

I love the visual editor in Algolia, it is very easy to use. The analytics also provide very valuble insights that can be used to then create or edit rules or synonyms. As a daily user it is a very easy platform to navigate and was able to be learned very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

There could have been multiple rules created by different users that effect the same results, would be nice to be able to see all rules/synonyms together the effect a certain query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia is an easy way to control and optimize site search. After updating in the back end you can see all changes within second on the live site. Merchandising product is simple and straight forward. Our Algolia represneative is always suggesting new test ideas to further enhance our product, both for simple features we already have as well as new features that continue to roll-out and help improve out site (ie. Dynamic Re-ranking) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia lets any organization build a full fledged search experience with limited engineering bandwidth and expertise. It provides tools for the Product managers, business owners to directly run promotions experiments on search without any engineering dependency. Would highly recommend it for organizations who may have limited engineering pool but want to provide a best in class search experience to scale their business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Algolia algorithm works differently from tradtional elastic based search, hence some of the deeper customizations in search ranking may are not possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia is helping us in build a scalable and best in class search experience from day 0 and helps us redirect our engineering resources to other problems. Features like typo tolerance, synonyms are available from day 0 and help boost our conversions. We run search promotions using the inbuilt rules capability which provides realtime promotions for brands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Software Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Algolia?

The ease at which i can integrate Algolia with my services and the many ways i can use it in my daily workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Sometimes the process of browsing and transforming records programatically could use some better documentation. At least when i started out it felt at times like i was missing some examples of e.g loading all records into a program an iterating on them. After a while it made more sense at has gotten easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has made the process of integrating our frontend and backend more seamless as well as serving for an excellent look up tool on product data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.