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The libraries and SDKs are awesome. It's wonderful to use. The free tier is generous. Documentation is terrific. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The indices are too tied to the organization, but it's easy to work around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best available solution to configure the search. Algolia presents visual search results that are attractive as well as being very fast in terms of displaying search results. The dashboard is very modern, like the brand, and offers a fairly comprehensive analysis. It is very easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some limitations on the size of the record and the size of the facet. It also doesn't allow you to test based on the hypothetical user's geographic location, the price can go up very quickly if the outbound subscription is exceeded, it doesn't support too many advanced skills either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Facet filter feature is the best that Algolia provides out of the box.

Searches are very swift and I like the feature a lot.

Facet filters are useful when we have categorised search.

Like how Algolia provides suggestions even in its settings page while typing out the keys for a record

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Algolia matches sub-string by default,

if there was an option to match query with a full word or a sub-string that would be great,

this would give developers the power to flip the option on or off depending on a condition programatically.

I would like to see this feature in near future, and can't wait to implement it.

I hope that I am notified about the addition of this feature via mail when it is added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Search speed

Autocomplete widget

Simple indexing capability

Search-related Reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of WordPress Plugin Support.

Had to take an existing fork of their WordPress plugin and further customise it... but was worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia has always been a product to use for better search results, i.e. search applications that required NLP-assisted search.

Now, with Algolia Answers, one has access to ML/NLP search results i.e. cognitive search.

Additionally, Algolia offers a turnkey cloud search solution, with one's indices stored across three or more geographically distributed cloud instances.

I would definitely recommend Algolia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As always, pricing can be an issue, but with long term contracts, pricing becomes less of an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia’s customer support responds quickly. They would do their best to remedy the issue or find a workaround.

They would even create simulations for you to demonstrate before implementing the custom change.

The pricing works for start up like our that have low resources. We are not an eCommerce site. We just needed Aloglia for users to search from our list of universities.

Their dashboard is easy to navigate. Their custom features and documentation is easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wish there was support for more languages and support for features that caters to searching in a foreign language.

For example some Taiwanese users uses phonetics characters Algolia can't understand this language leading to no search results.

It doesn't let you test based on the geo location of hypothetical user. Our search is optimized for geo location. So a user in China enters "University" then "University of china" would appear instead of "university of england" where I am based. It would be great if we can enter the hypothetical geo location Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast: Algolia's search results are super fast.

Scalable: It has the capacity to hold from 1 to many records (tested with catalog size of 100000 products)

Easy to integrate: For many e-commerce platforms, it comes with a plugin which is super easy to configure.

Search modification: You can define the synonyms and check the empty search results for which customers are looking for on your store.

Redirection: You can use the redirection rule to move user to a particular page on a search for a particular search keyword. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Higher Pricing: Recently there is a change in the pricing model which I think might not be liked by many small business owners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What impressed me most is how simple it is to get up and running with Algolia. This was made easier as I was using Laravel Scout that did a lot of the integration with me.

Algolia’s interface is simple to use and the documentation is clear. They also have some super components already build for major JavaScript libraries.

And of course the speed - it’s so fast to search with! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By default the JavaScript components will run a search on load, this caused every page view to hit their API. We were not aware of this behaviour and quickly hit our plan quota. It wasn’t hard to fix but did catch us out.

We had to double up our set up - once for staging and once for live. This was a little but fiddly and meant we had to be careful with any changes we made and ensure they were replicated. I do think we can store this in a configuration file and import this into various instances using their API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to set up, no maintenance needed from our side. Efficient and easy to adapt a ranking formula. Extremely fast search results. We tried to implement on iconscout.com. Here is a sample link: https://iconscout-search.netlify.app

Algolia is brain-dead simple to set up. I've implemented a search with Algolia in a dozen different ways now, and it never took me longer than a few minutes to get the functionality I want. With Algolia, the only challenge is designing your search UI -- if you don't want to use they are baked in UI solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costs can escalate dramatically when you expand your traffic. Manually manipulating search results (for specific queries having listings show up first) is a bit difficult to do without custom developing that functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia is amazingly simple for devs to implement. We roll it out to nearly all the websites we build. Once deployed we never have to worry about search. It's crazy fast, crazy accurate and a real pleasure to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia needs to work a bit on their customer support. They can somewhat a bit slow or hard to reach. But luckily when they solve your issue, they do it right. Also they use to have a great WP plugin but they discontinued it. It was a great solution but they favor dev's to build their own solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.