Index your world, put it in motion with our powerful search API, and get results fast

With Algolia Search, developers can rely on a simple and robust API to compose any search experience in the context of their companies’ applications. It democratizes the development of any search capability. The power of API building blocks supported by the flexibility of composing beautiful UIs, enables any developer to build applications and drive business results faster. From eCommerce sites to virtual reality productivity tools, from media to healthcare applications, Algolia Search powers search and discovery experiences everywhere.

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Fast to Implement
Leverage advanced front-end libraries, 14 API clients, and extensive documentation to quickly and easily build differentiated experiences, anywhere.
Fast to Adapt
Customize the relevance of your search experience and get insights into how users interact with it. Launch A/B tests and search analytics via APIs or a user-friendly dashboard.
Fast to Results
From unmatched speed to our AI capabilities, Algolia Search comes with continuously expanding capabilities at scale to achieve your goals.

Build an optimized and performant search experience, with Algolia’s Search API

Fully-hosted Search API, up and running in minutes

Crawler

Automatically extract and enrich your website content

Documentation

Start in minutes, leverage Algolia’s full capabilities

InstantSearch

A set of UI components to design the perfect experience

Infrastructure

Focus on building, Algolia ensures performance and reliability at scale

Integrations

Index content from any source

Security & Compliance

Keep your users and your data safe

Customize, personalize and optimize with immediate insights

Analytics

Understand your users, uncover hidden opportunities

Visual Editor

Get control over Search and Discovery to reflect your business goals

A/B Testing

Uncover the best performing relevance strategies

Rules

Optimize results ranking for your users’ queries

Custom Ranking

Create your own relevance algorithm

Maximize ROI with Algolia’s AI Search capabilities

Dynamic Synonym Suggestions

AI generated synonyms to get users to relevant results no matter the words they use

Personalization

Tailor the Search and Discovery to your users

Dynamic Re-ranking

Optimizes the ranking of results for each search for higher conversion rate

Autocomplete

Guide your users to the right content with personalized search autocomplete

Search solutions for any industry or use case

Enterprise Search

Connect your customers to the right content, and your employees to the right information.

Ecommerce

Build online shopping experiences that convert

Headless Commerce

Deliver rich eCommerce experiences everywhere

Site search platform optimized for mobile devices

Mobile Search

Accelerate engagement and conversion on mobile devices

Voice Search

Provide seamless experiences to users who choose to use their voices instead of your search box

Media

Internal search engine that drives engagement, increases loyalty, and retains users

Marketplaces

Build performant marketplace search at scale

SaaS

Build powerful software that retains users

Richard Migette,E-commerce Project Leader at Decathlon Singapore
What first impressed us was Algolia’s performance and reliability. Thanks to their distributed infrastructure, the search experience is always working, and always fast. This allows us to focus on shaping the solution to our needs instead of maintaining it
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Algolia Search FAQ

Really fast. Most of our search queries take from 1 to 20 milliseconds to process. That’s up to 200 times faster than our competitors.

That said, query performance depends on many factors, from the size of the data you’re searching through to how CPU-intensive a query is. For example, features like geo-sorting and distinct are more “expensive”.

Our ability to achieve unparalleled speed relies on a multitude of features, many of which we outlined in this blog post. For instance, the Algolia engine handles the vast majority of computation at indexing time, as opposed to query time. Beyond this, we control the full stack end-to-end. We’ve obsessed over every detail, from obtaining high-quality infrastructure (bare-metal servers) to crafting our own Ubuntu-based operating system, painstakingly modified for search engine performance.

To ensure queries are fast all around the world, we’ve also created our Distributed Search Network (DSN). This lets you automatically duplicate your search engine and data in multiple locations across the world. This is a complete copy of the search engine with all data, not just a cache. When your users perform a search, their queries reach the closest data center, significantly reducing the latency of the request. Learn more here.
An index is the place where the data used by a search engine is stored.

It is the equivalent for search of what a “table” is for a database. Unlike a database table, an index is optimized for search operations.

For example, in an ecommerce website, the index would be a complete list of all products with a custom ranking. Learn more here.
You might have already used us if you have ever searched on Hacker News, Medium, or Lacoste. Our clients range from small startups to very large companies in a variety of industries and in 80+ countries.

You’ll find some of them in our customers page.
Of course! All the features that make Algolia great on desktop make it even better on mobile.

Typo-tolerance: if there’s one place where users make typos, it’s on mobile.

Speed: mobile network tends to be slower, making speed an even more critical feature.

Relevance: on a small screen, it’s even more essential to find the best results at the top of the list.

We provide API clients for Swift and Objective-C, Android, Kotlin and C# to help you with your implementation.

Additionally, we’ve created iOS and Objective-C and Android UI libraries to help you easily implement search interfaces on mobile.
We do not offer an on-premise solution. Algolia is only an SaaS offering. On-premise is a complete change of focus - to do both is unsustainable for us. Learn more here.
We’ve designed our infrastructure to handle dozens to thousands of indexing operations per second. The speed depends on many factors. It generally takes more time if you’re on a shared cluster than when your plan includes a dedicated one, because shared cluster also share processing threads.

In most cases, the engine processes indexing operations in a matter of seconds, and search operations in a few milliseconds. Learn more here.
Our engine is language-agnostic: it supports alphabet-based and symbol-based languages (such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean). This is no easy feat, considering all the little and big differences languages have, from being based on symbols from different alphabets like Japanese or using many variants of the same stem like in German. So we added advanced capabilities to handle the specificities of such languages.
You can get it up and running in 5 minutes total. The most complex implementations can take a few weeks. Most of our users end up with a fully functional search 1 to 10 days after they sign-up. Because Algolia handles most of the back-end heavy-lifting, most of the work is usually to redesign and rethink the user experience of your website or application. Don’t hesitate to contact the support team if you happen to have a question. Learn more here.
Algolia Search can power search for any kind of content. Actually Algolia doesn’t directly search in your original data source, but in the data you submit, which Algolia hosts on its servers.
Search APIs are software components that allow developers to seamlessly introduce search capabilities to websites and applications. They provide backend tools for indexing documents, querying various types of data, managing cluster configurations, viewing search analytics, and more.