Algolia
Hosted search and recommendations API for websites, apps and online stores.
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About Algolia
Algolia is a hosted search service that developers plug into websites, apps and ecommerce stores. You send it your records, such as products, articles or docs, and it returns fast, typo-tolerant results as people type, with filters, facets, synonyms and ranking rules you can tune. Front-end UI libraries for React, Vue, iOS and Android speed up building the search box and results page, and ready-made integrations cover Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and others. Higher plans add AI ranking, semantic NeuralSearch, personalization, recommendations and merchandising tools aimed at large retailers. It is popular with documentation sites and online stores that want search to feel instant without running their own servers. Pricing is usage-based: a free plan covers small projects, then you pay per thousand searches and records, which can get expensive at high volume. Data is hosted in the US, UK or EU, and there is no self-hosted version.
Best for: Teams that want instant, tunable site or product search without running search servers.
Pros and cons
What works
- Very fast as-you-type search with typo tolerance
- Mature UI libraries and ecommerce integrations
- Free plan for small projects and prototypes
Why people leave
- Usage-based pricing gets costly with many searches or records
- No self-hosted option
- AI features such as NeuralSearch need the top plans
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Algolia: common questions
Is Algolia free?
Algolia has a free plan and paid plans. Free plan: 10K searches and 50K records a month (checked on Algolia's own site).
Is Algolia open source?
No, Algolia is not open source.
What platforms does Algolia run on?
Algolia is available for Web.