Algolia Reviews & Product Details

This service is really very fast, it’s unbelievable.

There’s nothing negative that comes to mind

Children can find what they want to learn about blazingly fast

Easy to use and integrate with Magento to provide our customers a great UX.

Pricing plans can be tough when moving between tiers.

Algolia provides search for our website and allows us to quickly provide a great experience. Other search providers can't match the Algolia experience.

Incredibly fast, easy to use. Very configurable and transparent in usage. Great documentation. Never have to deal with ElasticSearch.

- Places API isn't very robust. - Limited to 1000 records per page. - Expensive for lots of operations.

We are building a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of internet infrastructure products and services. The search experience of our site is powered by Algolia's autocomplete. Our map is powered by Mapbox, with data coming from Algolia as well. Working with Algolia takes away so many pain points that we don't have to think about search algorithms or other problems startups like us face.

The free version is up to thousand of entries and it make it possible to validate your business model while launching a new collaborative website using a browser without having to invest a lot of money.

Not in french yet so some features are not easy to understand and implement

With Algolia we have been able to offer our users a search experience among different cities or visit places we have registered in algolia

A fantastic tool for Online visual merchandising

At times not so user friendly and hence lags a bit

Ease of online merchandising which helps to make our sites more user friendly

It really helps organise and sort my assortment really well.

The pricing could be a bit better. It is a very expensive tool and there are cheaper substitutes.

To recommend the best performing product to people searching for the most random search queries

Easy to configure and test: the dashboard works well

Still requires significant data organization from the user - better synonyms and automated product categorization would help

Enabling Algolia search for our product catalog in multiple languages has improved our search CTR by 40%

Exceeded my expectations with its seamless user interface and powerful features. Its intuitive design made navigation a breeze, and the efficiency with which it handled complex tasks was truly impressive. A must-have tool for large ecommerce sites processes and boosting productivity.

I would like to offer a suggestion that could potentially further enhance the user experience, particularly when it comes to the integration process. While the current integration process is already user-friendly, here are a few ideas that could make it even more seamless and efficient.

Algolia is a game-changing solution that addresses the critical challenge of search and discovery, revolutionizing the way users interact with digital platforms. By seamlessly integrating Algolia's powerful search capabilities, we have been able to overcome the problem of complex and often ineffective search functionalities on our website. Algolia's lightning-fast and relevant search results have drastically improved user experience, enabling visitors to quickly find the information, products, or services they're seeking. This enhanced search experience has not only increased user engagement and satisfaction but has also translated into higher conversion rates, making Algolia an invaluable tool in optimizing our online presence and driving business growth.

For the most part is it just plug-and-play. It has good packages for integrating with Ruby on Rails and Laravel which makes firing data off easy. Being able to control search preferences inside Algolia rather than in code makes it easy to see what options are available but also tinker in realtime.

Pricing - it becomes prohibitively expensive as the number of records goes up. This is a result of paying per record rather than paying for CPU capacity or bandwidth. For use-cases with millions of records I've had to consider other options.

It makes searching for our users (and site administrators) super easy - it fixes for typos, handles fuzzy searching and queries multiple columns easily. It takes the load off our SQL database performing complex queries and gives better and faster results to our customers.

It was a joy implementing Algolia, and once I got the hang of it, and got what I needed out of it, I was amazed by the speed of the service, and the ease of use of the web app. It's great to see so much gifted to us in the free tier plan.

It occasionally had smaller glitches, but mostly display issues on the web app (like text covering buttons), but nothing that could not be worked around easily. One bug downside: cannot search for the inexistence of fields/values.

We use firebase and it has no string search, so we were looking for an alternative, and Algolia has solved that problem perfectly, and for a very good price as well.

I like that the Algolia interface is intuitive. I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. I also love how extensive the help center is. I can find the answer to almost any question I have.

Implementation can be pretty technical, especially for mid-to-large ecommerce brands. For example, enabling click and conversion events require editing the code. That's not ideal for most users who want to get up and running fast.

Before using Algolia, our search results were inaccurate at best and infuriating at worst. Thanks to Algolia, our customers can find the products that they need very quickly.

Algolia was easy to integrate, and their platform makes it easy to customize the search experience based on our product and customer needs. We had originally built our own search experience but found that transitioning over to Algolia gave us the ability to constantly be delivering an excellent experience to users without needing to maintain the search technology on our own.

As a business owner, I haven't run into any downsides yet but admittedly the engineers on my team would be more prepared to comment on any details of the integration or maintenance process.

We are allowing media buyers to discover and browse their purchase options much faster.

Algolia is really powerful and has made site search far easier, since using Algolia we are have been able to implement very fast on site filters that work with extremely high accuracy. Within the algolia platform you are able to configure the site to your customer behaviour, for example if you are seeing customers misspelling a word you are able to implement a tolerance to make sure they still see the results they are looking for.

Algolia uses indexes to call all of your data from, which makes algolia very quick but this mean that it's only ever as good as you make it. If you don't already have a good structure then you will need to have a very big clean out and restructure which is time consuming.

Primary use has been on site filters for product listings and on site searching. Since implementing Algoia we are now able to return relevant product results to our customers, now customers can find exactly what they are looking for, conversion is higher

The major advantage is that the way the services are organised. It lets anyone without a dab hand coding skills to start working with Algolia. Also the support services are quite awesome.

I guess if you start to engage people on a much efficient manner, customer satisfaction will be quite huge.

Algolia has helped me a lot in terms of Indexing data as well as I love the NLP tools quite a lot. Huge fan always !

It allows up to offload our search infrastructure.

Nothing in particular integration was relatively easy.

Algolia is our search provider, solves the problem of having to implement and run a solr, etc. implementation

I like that you guys support open source projects for free, very cool. was extrememly easy to integrate to docusaurus build, hence why we started using it. it works pretty good

I dislike that i can only see the top couple of results. We have hundreds of documents and references. Users sometimes need to search google to get what they need out of our website.

Helping users find what documents to read based on keywords

I like best how fast Algolia is for all operations (search and indexing)

I don't dislike a lot of things. Their React connectors could be a bit better.

I give access to a huge database of soccer players

Algolia is easy to set up with any language or major framework/tool. The speed is impressive even at a big scale.

The product is very oriented toward e-commerce

Algolia handle everything that need a search engine on our app

The way in which Algolia provides relevant alternatives if the customers preferred search is not available.

The way in which it is billed is hard to keep track of.

Our search engine on our website was poor. Algolia has much improved this search and helped make our website more consumer friendly.

We installed Algolia and got it working with minimal fuss. The technology is what they use on ProductHunt, so you knw that it is battle tested.

Pricing is slightly higher than expected, but we're happy with the service overall. We may be on a higher tier than is necessary, but needed some of the additional features because of the size of the data set.

Discovery on a large site is difficult-- Algolia helps users better surface our content.