# Algolia

> AI-powered search and discovery platform that delivers fast, relevant, and personalized search experiences for websites, apps, and ecommerce.

Algolia is an AI search and retrieval platform that powers agentic, generative, and traditional search experiences for over 18,000 customers across 150+ countries. It delivers sub-20ms average response times across 70+ data centers in 17 regions, combining keyword search with neural/semantic search, personalization, and AI-driven recommendations. The platform serves ecommerce, media, SaaS, B2B, and marketplace use cases, offering a full suite of developer APIs, UI libraries, and no-code merchandising tools.

- **AI Search (NeuralSearch)** — *Combines semantic and keyword search to understand user intent, context, and nuance; available on the Elevate plan.*
- **Recommendations** — *Uses behavioral signals to surface related products, trending items, frequently bought together, and more via a dedicated Recommend API.*
- **Personalization** — *Classic and advanced AI-enhanced personalization adapts results in near real time based on each user's actions and history.*
- **Merchandising Studio** — *A visual interface for ecommerce teams to apply rules, promotions, collections, and AI-driven ranking without coding.*
- **Generative Experiences (RAG)** — *Build conversational, RAG-powered search guides grounded in your verified data for accurate, on-brand AI responses.*
- **Agent Studio** — *Create, test, and deploy AI agents that leverage Algolia's retrieval capabilities within agentic workflows.*
- **Analytics & A/B Testing** — *Track search patterns, click and conversion events, and run experiments to continuously improve relevance and KPIs.*
- **Web Crawler** — *A hosted, customizable crawler indexes your site content automatically, eliminating the need to build and maintain indexing pipelines.*
- **Data Transformation & Enrichment** — *Modify, enhance, or restructure records at index time and enrich them by calling third-party services via Fetch API.*
- **Extensive Integrations** — *Pre-built connectors for Shopify, Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, Contentful, WordPress, and more; API clients for Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Go, Kotlin, Swift, C#, and Scala.*
- **Global Infrastructure** — *70+ data centers across 17 regions with 99.999% availability on enterprise plans; SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and BSI C5 certified.*

To get started, sign up for the free Build plan (no credit card required), index your data using any API client or integration, and launch a search UI with InstantSearch or Autocomplete libraries. Upgrade to Grow or Grow Plus for production use, or contact sales for the Elevate enterprise plan with NeuralSearch and advanced SLA.

## Features
- AI Search (NeuralSearch)
- Keyword Search
- Semantic Search
- AI Recommendations
- Personalization
- Merchandising Studio
- Generative Experiences (RAG)
- Agent Studio
- Ask AI
- MCP Server
- A/B Testing
- Analytics
- Web Crawler
- Autocomplete / Query Suggestions
- Data Transformation & Enrichment
- Rules & Relevance Tuning
- Browse / Category Pages
- AI Collections
- Smart Groups
- Dynamic Re-ranking
- Multi-Signal Ranking
- Voice Search
- Image Search
- Visual Search
- InstantSearch UI Libraries
- Pre-built Ecommerce Integrations
- Global Infrastructure (70+ data centers)
- SOC 2 Type 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR Compliance

## Integrations
Shopify, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, Contentful, WordPress, Firebase, Contentstack, Amplience, SAP, Amazon AWS, Netlify, Supabase, Zendesk, Gatsby, Docusaurus, Bubble, Drupal, Nuxt, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Spryker, Jekyll, Tray

## Platforms
LINUX, ANDROID, IOS, WEB, API, DEVELOPER_SDK, CLI

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Links
- Website: https://www.algolia.com
- Documentation: https://www.algolia.com/doc/
- Repository: https://github.com/algolia
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/algolia