The almost comprehensive list of resources for developers to evaluate Algolia

Hi there. If you’re here, you’re probably evaluating whether Algolia is the right solution for the problem you’re trying to solve. And you’re probably looking for third party, factual information to do so – bonus points for your peers’ point of view on our technology.

We understand that you might want to forge your opinion based mostly on any content except ours, and we encourage you to do so ☺ But we still want to help you in this process! So we’ve referenced here everything we could find on the internet – favorable or not – as well as all our technical content (documentation, code exchange, customer implementations, …) that we believe could help you make up your own mind about Algolia.

We expect to list more assets as they become available. If you spot anything new, or if we’ve missed something, please let us know.

Enough talking, here’s the list.

Unsolicited discussions and opinions about Algolia

We didn’t ask – people just shared their thoughts about Algolia.

Source	Type	Year	Link
Reddit	Community discussions	2019	Does laravel.com uses algolia wrong or is algolia just trash?
HackerNews	Algolia review, discussion	2020	Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search
Reddit	Community discussions	2020	Implementing search, should I go for Algolia or is Rails/Postgres enough?
HackerNews	Algolia review, discussion	2021	Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1
Reddit	Community discussions	2021	Firebase recommending you use Algolia for search is like McDonald’s recommending you go to Burger King for fries

Algolia vs ..

People compared us to some of our competitors.

Source	Type	Year	Link
Independant Blog	Algolia vs Elasticsearch	2019	Migrating Halodoc Search from Algolia to Elastic Search
Other Forum	Algolia vs ..	2020	Suggestions for Search API service. Something cheaper than Algolia
Reddit	Algolia vs Elasticsearch	2020	Elastic Search Vs Algolia Search
StackShare	Algolia vs Elasticsearch	2021	Algolia vs Elasticsearch
Independant Blog	Algolia vs Elasticsearch	2021	The Elasticsearch sideshow and why Algolia is the better be
Reddit	Community discussions, Algolia reviews	2021	Using algolia or custom elastic search service?
Vendor	Algolia vs Elasticsearch Algolia vs Typesense Algolia vs Meilsearch	2021	Compare Typesense vs Algolia vs ElasticSearch vs Meilisearch

Solicited and unsolicited Algolia reviews

Anyone can leave a review on these websites at any time. In some cases,  we proactively reached out to our users to leave reviews.

• TechValidate
• G2 Crowds

Algolia search and live implementations

Assess the end-user experience by yourself.

• Algolia Inspiration Library
• SimilarTech Algolia page
• BuiltWith Algolia page

Algolia docs & Algolia API docs

Assess if Algolia would be a good fit for your use case and your stack.

• Algolia Docs
• Algolia API Docs
• Integrations, frameworks
• Algolia InstantSearch front-end libraries

See what you can build with Algolia

• Code Exchange
• Sample Apps (GitHub link)

Try it yourself

• Sign up to Algolia

We hope we’ve helped you in your evaluation process. If you’d like to recommend any additional asset to list here, please contact us. For more resources, visit our developer hub.