Algolia Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 I like the best is the loading time, which is under 1ms for all of our requests.

The customer support is really great and we deployed Algolia in a few hours for our stock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything is not always "no-code" friendly, you better have some experience in development in order to understand every feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It uses our data in a really intelligent way, and is very good at presenting this back to you in a way that demonstrates its value, and performance against the norm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a steep learning curve for new users and the user interface and how it operates can be a bit daunting for non-technical team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Implementaion was much easier than previous tools and the support from Algolia has been incredibly helpful and informative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the defaults such as number of results bought back from facets were hard to overwride and were not the clearest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.