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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
Algolia search and live implementations
Assess the end-user experience by yourself.
Algolia docs & Algolia API docs
Assess if Algolia would be a good fit for your use case and your stack.
See what you can build with Algolia
Try it yourself
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