SAN FRANCISCO - July 8, 2025 – Algolia, the AI-native search and discovery platform trusted by 18,000 businesses and millions of developers worldwide, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery. 

Gartner noted “Leaders demonstrate the ability to provide a depth and breadth of functionality. They deliver capabilities across multiple industries and business models that can scale up to support large search volumes. They provide sales and support services both directly and through an ecosystem of application, service and integration partners. They innovate, typically by means of technology updates, new products and product functionality, investments inside and outside core S&PD, and programs that improve customers’ ability to succeed. Leaders tend to be mature in a market, and also have financial, technical and organizational viability, and consistently feature in Gartner clients’ evaluations of vendors. They often set the competitive benchmark against which other vendors measure themselves.”

Algolia leverages cutting-edge Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand the intent behind search queries and improve relevancy. By understanding both context and words, Algolia helps businesses across diverse verticals increase customer loyalty, reduce manual upkeep, and meet business goals. 

Bernadette Nixon, CEO of Algolia said: “We believe this recognition by Gartner, and believe it’s a testament to our vision and passion for delivering value and results for our customers.  The other thing we’re excited about at the moment is the power of agentic AI powered by Algolia, where software powered by language models is no longer limited to answering questions, but can autonomously make decisions and take actions to support business goals.

Algolia’s recently announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server is the first proof point in a long-term roadmap aimed at positioning Algolia as both the retrieval layer for agents and a trusted foundation for agent-oriented applications.

AI-First Platform Built for Scale
Algolia’s API-first platform is cloud agnostic and runs on a multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and includes:

• AI Search – Real-time semantic and keyword search with context awareness

• AI Browse – Personalized category navigation powered by intent signals

• AI Recommendations – Behavior- and vector-based suggestions for discovery

• Merchandising Studio – Low-code tools for business users to guide AI behavior

• Analytics – Action-oriented insights like Next Best Actions for ongoing optimization

With support for over 60 languages out of the box, Algolia enables rapid, multi-market rollout with no additional tuning required.

Innovation Spotlight: Agentic AI & Generative AI
In the past six months, Algolia launched several major AI-driven advancements:

• Context-Aware Retrieval for the Agentic era – A breakthrough in autonomous decisioning, enabling the search engine to act on user intent, adapt in real time, and self-optimize — from auto-generating synonyms to launching new workflows.

• Intelligent Fashion Solution – a bold, fashion-first innovation bringing AI-powered capabilities to very layer of the online retail experience

• Smart Groups – AI-powered curation and automation for content and merchandising teams

• AI-Ranking – Next generation ranking comprising Advanced Dynamic Reranking, Multi-Signal Ranking, and Dynamic Reranking for revenue.

• Shopping Guides – A Generative AI tool for elevating the online shopping experience

These innovations build on Algolia’s mission to make AI-native Search and Discovery the most powerful lever in the modern digital experience stack — for both B2C and B2B brands.

Platform Adoption and Ecosystem
Algolia serves thousands of customers globally across retail, media, travel, SaaS, and financial services. It supports midmarket and enterprise clients with a robust partner ecosystem, developer tooling, and transparent pricing, including a free tier for developers managing up to 1 million SKUs.

Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.

Bernadette Nixon added: “We consider Algolia’s position as a Magic Quadrant Leader validates the strength of our AI architecture—from vector and hybrid search to agentic workflows and GenAI capabilities. We’ve built a platform engineered for speed, scale, and precision—because relevance at millisecond latency isn’t optional. It’s expected.”

From Algolia's perspective, at the core of its positioning lies its unmatched data footprint, AI-first architecture, and proven impact across conversion, cross-sell, user engagement, ad performance, and order value applications.

To learn why 18,000+ companies trust Algolia's industry-leading AI, experience Algolia AI Search first-hand here or request a demo.

Source: Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Search and Product Discovery," Mike Lowndes, Aditya Vasudevan, Sandy Shen, Noam Dorros, June 25, 2025.

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About Algolia
Algolia is a leading provider of AI search solutions, serving over 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers globally. Renowned for its user-friendly API-First platform and the fastest AI search technology, Algolia is the largest hosted search engine, trusted by businesses and developers for 1.75 trillion searches per year. Backed by a decade of innovation, expertise, and growth, Algolia continuously redefines the search landscape with its commitment to user-friendly solutions, significant scalability, and unmatched speed. Learn more: www.algolia.com.