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A goldmine of AI based searches! Superbly useful!
What do you like best about the product?
Their AI Browse feature is a game changer. The usability is simple and sharp and overall UX is curated for ease. One can easily create category pages without any coding knowledge which is worth praising.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now. But a small point, while exploring the platform I found a glitch while pining the hero product on the top. Not sure it was my browser but was not a major trouble!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best thing about Algolia is that it's an all-in-one platform for E-commerce enthusiasts. Whether you want to research about the user needs or create category pages with drag and drop features to analytics of each page at one single place, Algolia does it all!
Powerful search capabilities. Has a few limitations.
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia has a fast and reliable search experience. Its one of the best choices for search intensive applications (e-commerce/SaaS platforms) The dashboard is intuitive. I am a fan of many of the features, particularly AI-powered relevance. These features give you more control over the search UX.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing can scale quickly for high traffic sites. The free tier is okay, but advanced features will cost more. The learning curve for ranking strategies and advanced configurations can be steep.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My team uses Algolia for the search and discovery experience across digital platforms, particularly in areas where speed and scalability drive customer engagement and conversion.
Best in class product discovery platform
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia is an incredibly powerful and flexible product discovery platform. Its speed, relevance, and scalability make it a top-tier solution for e-commerce search and filtering. The documentation is well-written, the ecosystem is rich, and the integration with front-end frameworks is seamless. It significantly enhances the user experience by delivering fast and relevant results in real-time, which directly impacts conversion rates.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product offers a wide range of features and configuration options, which is great—but can also be overwhelming, especially for non-technical stakeholders. The learning curve can be steep without proper onboarding. I also believe that business-oriented guidance and best practice support could be improved to help teams align the technical setup with their business goals more efficiently.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia helps us deliver a fast, relevant, and scalable product discovery experience. We use it to power search, product recommendations, and dynamic category pages. It enables us to provide users with highly personalized and intuitive navigation, leading to improved engagement, better conversion rates
Powerful and Fast Search Engine
What do you like best about the product?
Using Algolia has made our app’s search feature super quick and much easier to manage.s a developer, I really liked the flexibility it gives with custom ranking, filters, and the relevance tuning. Integration with React was smooth, and the InstantSearch components saved us a lot of time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing can be a bit steep, especially if your dataset is large or if you have a lot of search traffic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We didn’t have to build a search engine from scratch — just push data to Algolia, and it’s ready to go. Their analytics and dashboard are quite helpful for monitoring
Algolia's Startup Program is indeed too good to be true--be aware before signing up
What do you like best about the product?
It is a search tool and we haven't experienced any downtime, though hard to say if it's that much better than its competitors. We were attracted by its Startup Program, but that hasn't delivered for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Algolia markets its startup program as $10,000 in Free Search & Discovery Usage, which is super attractive for pre-revenue startups and puts it ahead of its competitors. HOWEVER, what they don't tell you up front is that as soon as you're accepted into the startup program, even if it's months before you launch, the clock starts on that offer, so in practice, you really won't get $10K in value. What the startup program looked like in practice for us--we set up algolia summer 2024 as we were building our product. We launched Jan 2025, 6 months into Algolia's startup program. We've only used ~$300 in credits, yet we will lose the rest of the supposed $10K in credits next month because they only give you 1 year to use the $10K, regardless of when you actually go live. As a small, pre-revenue startup, we're now locked in to paying Algolia's expensive rates until we have the engineering bandwidth to switch, which we definitely will be switching, but I wish we had known up front because we would not have gone with Algolia and invested the time to set it up in the first place. We tried contacting Algolia to explain our situation, and they said they couldn't do anything, so I'm writing this review so more startups can be aware and not make the same mistake we did!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching a large database quickly and accurately.
Well worth the investment
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Good, while there are areas for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Good UI, fast integration, comprehensive documentation, multiple platforms support. Great search engine in general.
Nice customer support.
Nice customer support.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Best in class Search experience
What do you like best about the product?
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
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the new products are not as practical as the core search engine.
What problems is the product 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.
AI-Powered Search with more control than Drupal default site search
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Simple and easy to use tool for designing your website search
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Faced challenges regarding updating the records in the index. Also, call support is not available even in premium paid plan.This is a bummer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making enterprise search easy to experiment with analyse and improve.
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