Algolia
What is Algolia?
Algolia provides a leading API platform for Search and Dynamic experiences that to create fast, relevant search and discovery. Algolia achieves this with an API-first approach enabling developers and business teams to surface relevant content that enhance online engagement, increase conversion rates, and enrich lifetime value. More than 11,000 companies rely on Algolia to manage over 1.5 trillion search queries a year. Algolia’s HQ is in San Francisco. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
+83 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Algolia?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
Feature Ratings
Advanced/Faceted search
Results Sorting
Content Aggregation
Synonyms and Stemming
User interface for search/retrieval
Optical Character Recognition
Content Analytics
Processing and Indexing
AI/Machine Learning
Search Query Parsers
Audio and Video Analytics
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Data Integration
Algolia Reviews
Jatero A.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Fantastic Product!!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Algolia from other similar products?
Ease of integration The documentation is great
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The dashboard is amazing!
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be challenging to learn its functions. However, with time it gets easy.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The software increases conversion rates by leveraging online engagements. It is a fundamental need for any business. Algolia will help your business grow faster.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Caring
- Respectful

Sandra S.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
Best software to enable search & discovery!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Algolia from other similar products?
Algolia offers a wide range of advanced features for a very reduced price with compared to the similar software products in the market. These features include fully hosted search APIs, 3rd party app integrations, dashboard with informative analytics, A/B testing, visual editors and so much more AI based features!
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I personally love about Algolia is their AI based search capabilities that allows dynamic synonym suggestion, dynamic re-ranking and query suggestions. Also, I love Algolia because the search processes done by it is way faster because of the DSNs they have.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike the pricing they have towards medium scale businesses/teams. That can be revised and reduced.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Algolia is a 10/10 for any enterprise looking to level-up their search and discovery abilities of the website and the search navigation system with very few IT resources and lower cost of ownership. I recommend them to book a demo with the sales team and ask for a quotation and move forward from there.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

James G.
- Role: C Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2022
Removes our need to worry about document search
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Algolia from other similar products?
Well designed interface, great API docs, clear and transparent pricing.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the reporting we get on search analytics as it helps us understand what customers are searching for and unable to find — so we can improve our documentation. I also love how the search experience is really strong for our customers so they can find what they need with confidence.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Most frustrations are around features available on each pricing tier — it'd be great to have more functionality on the more affordable tiers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Don't even think about building your own search if you're looking to implement document or website search. If you can budget for it, Algolia solves your problems and means you don't have to worry about maintenance.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Less Generous