Algolia Reviews & Product Details
Algolia is a discovery and search tool designed to help businesses improve their website and app search experience. The platform has tools such as instant search, typo tolerance, and personalized results that help users find the information needed efficiently. With a focus on simplicity and ease, Algolia helps businesses increase engagement and conversions by delivering a fast and relevant search experience.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
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| Languages | English |
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 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
Easy to configure and implement in Web and Mobile Apps. Results are very fast. Rules, AI Re-Ranking and Personalization are the best features.
Licensing model - It becomes expensive when search requests increase as it charges on each search request.
Our previous search was quite slow and the results were not personalized. With Algolia search results are coming in milliseconds and they are relevant.
The simplicity (connection with Firebase), the documentation, and the UI / UX
The indications about the price. We don't know if we pay the records each month, we don't have a simulator in order to estimate the cost in production.
Problem solved: Auto completion search Benefit: Firebase doesn't have an efficient search (case sensitive etc), Algolia is perfectly solving it
Algolia delivers what they promise. And their team is always there to help us to reach our goals.
The speed of Algolia puts pressure on our other systems to perform in the same pace.
Delivering correct products and search results in the correct time and place for our customers
Algolia provides a richer search experience and is easy to integrate and configure every aspect of it. You won’t find a competitor that beats the speed, ease of integration and support you receive easily our favorite SaaS out there.
Probably the Pricing model, which at times can be confusing due to search unit calculations and scale economy variations.
Search results mainly. Algolia makes a great job out of the box at correcting typos, synonyms and complex search terms. Another thing to point out is its great admin tool with speedy adoption times.
Free Plans, Searching Speed, Uptime, and many more
Everything about Algolia is really great, they are doing a really great job in every aspect.
It helped me in saving a lot of time by not having to code a search engine myself and for starters, they have a really great free plan wherein I was able to test out all the things properly before adopting it completely.
Algolia delivers fast, quality results and the WordPress plugin, offered by a third-party developer on wordpress.org, makes it possible to install this on any WordPress site with relative ease. The Algolia team provides excellent support as well, though of course they won't build your search experience for you without an additional support plan.
I am unable to tweak much about the search experience without hiring a developer. In addition, getting under the hood seems to be technical enough to be beyond the skills of some WordPress devs.
We were using an excellent WordPress self-hosted search plugin (paid) but that ran on our own server. Algolia takes the load on their own servers and comes with some pre-built filters.
The flexibility of Algolia I think is one of its greatest strengths. On the server side, their SDKs are easy to use, but I've also found the raw REST API endpoints simple enough as well. On the client side, I like that they have a library for UI components but also allow you to do the UI completely yourself, and just hit the APIs for searching.
I've found little to truly dislike. I have seen that in some cases, the parts of the product that are NOT free, are sometimes not properly explained. For example, when trying to test the Crawler product, I remember the error message wasn't clear that it was part of the paid tier only. That's a minor complaint though.
I manage a large content site (six thousand plus blog posts), and Algolia provides an awesome search interface to that and makes it easier for my readers to find content. Heck, it helps me find stuff in my own content as well.
Algolia is super reliable with no noticed downtime across the five or more years of using it. In addition to it being lightning fast, we ended up using it to power our searching and filtering across certain content pages in addition to it powering our search.
One downside to consider is that running multiple environments on different payment plans so that you are not overpaying for your development data, there was no easy way to migrate settings from indices from one plan to another under the same organization. This meant that all index configuration had to be painstakingly checked and carbon copied when needing to test something on a non-production environment.
We initially used algolia just to power search, but quickly realized it was a solution to allow administration tools to quickly find and published content, as well as powering content filtering and categorization for certain listings pages.
It's extremely easy to integrate. It took under 1 BD to integrate Algolia for the NGO SaaS that I'm managing. The fuzzy search is completely out of the box, no configuration is needed at all. Before I integrate Algolia I was able to easily import test data and test the actual implementation with demo that Algolia provided. This took under 10 mins.
No downsides until now. I'm happy with the service as it is. There seems to be some out of sync communication with representative contacting me over email and phone, but this is nothing irritating.
It is helping the dummy search engine that was bild with exact match in mobile apps. Alternative option was to use solr, but it needed extra ram and wasn't feasible to integrate. Algolia is now able to feed the apps with results that might have typo in them. This is also saving our customer service unnecessary tickets.
The documentation is awesome. It was really easy to start a search experience on my app. I just inserted the libraries and followed the 5 minute tutorial and I was ready for a production launch.
Sadly some examples on the website docs are not totally clear or they lack more applied examples. I'll like to have demos for each possible scenario or caveat of the API of algolia. but either way is really useful as it is
I'm using search results as an autocomplete based on a knowledge base I created from user documents, algolia is making all the hard work and helping me with the searching and autocompletion
The built-in integration with Laravel Scout and Algolia.
Large models must be chunked into multiple components.
With Laravel and Algolia we were able to very quickly implement a full-featured incredibly responsive search solution for our web application with analytics, reporting, and backend features like synonym salting.
several things, first: quick and easy integration, powerful search engine, fast results on clients, improve on user experience
The complexity to make the search results to be shown in special cases
Improve the user experience allowing to search on the apps