Algolia vs. Elasticsearch

Algolia

105 Reviews and Ratings

Elasticsearch

208 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Algolia	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Algolia offers AI-powered solutions to improve online search and discovery experiences, with tools for business teams and APIs for developers that help to improve user engagement and conversions across websites, apps, and e-commerce platforms.	$0 per month 10k search requests + 100k records
Elasticsearch	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Elasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.	$16 per month

Pricing

Algolia

Elasticsearch

Build: $0
per month Up to 10,000 search requests + 1 Million records
Grow: $0.50
per month per 1,000 search requests
Algolia Recommend: $0.60
per month per 1,000 Recommend requests
Premium: Custom
per month Customized pricing
Elevate: custom
per year

Standard: $16.00
per month
Gold: $19.00
per month
Platinum: $22.00
per month
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Algolia	Elasticsearch
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

Pay as you go, scale instantly, or upgrade anytime for advanced features and capabilities.

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Key User Insights
	Algolia	Elasticsearch
Considered Both Products	Algolia Verified User Chose Algolia Mostly for instant search capability, then because SFCC option can be easier to use, but front end capabilities where not nice at the time we implemented it. Elasticsearch is more similar with database and index management, but was more expensive at the time + Algolia cartridge … Incentivized Helpful? Camilo Salinas CTO in Engineering at Widmy (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Algolia Algolia works out of the box, you don't need to setup a lot to see how it works for you. Its also pretty flexible and customizable if you need to. With Elasticsearch you have to think about deployment strategies, where to host it, how to send data for it and build custom … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia Algolia prioritizes simplicity and quick setup, excelling in user-friendly search experiences. Elasticsearch offers versatility and complexity, suitable for intricate scenarios, while Amazon CloudSearch provides essential features and seamless integration within the AWS … Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo Acevedo Teran Director Of Ecommerce in Sales at Sportline America (Retail, 501-1000 employees) Chose Algolia Elasticsearch is its direct competitor, but I would say that it is more focused on performance and less focused on aesthetics and recommendations. If you are thinking of getting Algolia, I would recommend that you also compare it at least to Elasticsearch. Either one is a good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia By far Elasticsearch is the prime competitor that comes into the picture when thinking about Algolia. Where Algolia surpasses Elasticsearch by miles is in performance. Algolia is search on steroids. However, Elasticsearch supersedes Algolia in terms of flexibility and cost. Elas… Incentivized Helpful? Will Essilfie Product Manager in Product Management at TPT (E-Learning, 201-500 employees) Chose Algolia There are many open source search products available. Prior to Algolia, we used an in-house search system adopted from an open-source system. While this was nice in that we could modify it in any way we wanted, it also required dedicated engineering and setting up many … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia Offloading search logic to Algolia saved dev time and allowed our engineers to focus on higher-impact features instead of maintaining complex queries or custom search infra. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia While AWS's offering is a typically cheaper solution, it requires a lot of work to gain any of the core features of Algolia. The cost of dev time and long-term maintenance would be more than the costs incurred with Algolia, which is why it made the most sense financially. On … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia There were few alternatives when we started by using Algolia and it was the better rated in terms of price & performance. Now there are more alternatives, but we keep algolia as is isolated from the rest of our stack so that we can have better performance & control. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia Algolia provides the best user experience, ease of integration and implementation, extremely high performance on large catalogs. The features offered are powerful and complete, with machine learning systems to improve result personalization. The service management can be done … Incentivized Helpful? Russell Preston Senior Web Developer in Engineering at Betabrand (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Algolia Algolia got us up and running faster and more easily than if we'd managed elastic search and it's configuration by ourselves. Upfront and ongoing costs and complications/ custom implementations were removed from the equation by choosing Algolia out of the gate. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia Amazon is great for huge companies that have a team to support this feature in particular but if you are a small to medium business, Algolia is more manageable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia At the time we did a TD on a number of different solutions, and Algolia was selected for its features and functionality. Why we couldn’t account for at the time was the lack of customer service and tech support, or problems that would regularly and repeatedly occur within their … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Thomas Head of Digital in Marketing at Shoebacca (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Algolia Algolia works well in tandem with Magento and provides a large number of tools and features that provide greater control and adaptability as compared to other solutions we reviewed. Algolia has demonstrated its commitment to continual innovation, providing access to next-gen … Incentivized Helpful? Sagiv Frankel Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at WeWork (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Algolia Algolia does not require your own setup so we could get going fast. Algolia is known for being fast and highly available. It requires less domain knowledge. It is a lot more expensive though. Another plus is that is it very easy to sync data to it. You can backfill millions of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Algolia Algolia at first seemed and proved to be the fastest compared to the other search engines. It is very easy to implement. Also, it had a 24x7 support which proved to be very useful. It is also useful for all types of clients weather it be organizations or individuals. It can … Incentivized Helpful? Rich Warren Growth Engineering Lead in Engineering at Fat Lama (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Algolia Algolia was by far and away the easiest of the three to implement. PostgreSQL has many search modules that can be used on top of your usual database, however, none are particularly efficient and can quickly become overwhelmed at scale. Equally, they do not handle business … Incentivized Helpful?	Elastic No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Algolia	Elasticsearch
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (46 ratings)	9.0 (48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	9.6 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.4 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (3 ratings)	7.8 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.4 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)