AI search that simply works

Algolia AI Search is a cloud-based, API-first search solution that uses AI and keyword search technologies, like natural language processing, autocomplete, typo tolerance, and cosine similarity, to deliver a search experience that understands user intent and returns fast, highly relevant search results. 

Extremely fast. Most search queries return results in just 1 to 20 milliseconds, up to 200x faster than typical competitors.

Our AI Search API can handle any content you send into its hosted index, like product catalogs, blog posts, help articles, media, images, or API-Sourced data. It understands both keywords and meaning, so it works well with all kinds of data, from short titles to long documents

Unlike many competitors, Algolia combines an API-first architecture with robust developer tools, global scalability, and fine-grained relevance controls. Instead of a black-box approach, Algolia gives you full visibility and control over how search works, letting you tailor results to your goals while still leveraging the power of AI.

Its hybrid search approach ensures both precision and semantic understanding, so results are consistently high quality.

Core capabilities include semantic search, AI-powered relevance tuning, vector embeddings, hybrid keyword and vector matching, real-time personalization, dynamic re-ranking, and multilingual search support. 

These features work together to make search faster, smarter, and more adaptable to business needs.

Ecommerce, SaaS, media publishers, fashion, finance, marketplaces, agentic search, enterprises, mobile apps, headless commerce, voice search, and image search are just some of the use cases and industries where our AI Search drives faster discovery, better relevance, and increased conversions. 

By delivering more relevant results faster, Algolia reduces friction in the customer journey, helping users find what they need before losing interest. Its semantic understanding interprets what users mean, not just what they type, leading to fewer “no results” pages and a better overall search experience that drives more engagement and conversions. 

Yes, our AI search API is language-agnostic and trained to understand meaning and intent across dozens of languages, allowing businesses to serve global audiences without building separate search experiences for each region. Learn more about how Algolia handles multilingual search. 

Algolia’s personalization captures user actions—such as clicks, views, or purchases—and translates them into category-based affinity profiles.

These affinities boost search results at query time after textual and business relevance layers, allowing individualized results without overriding relevance. 

For deeper automation, the Advanced Personalization pipeline automatically builds and applies these profiles.

Developers can integrate it using Algolia’s APIs and SDKs, giving full flexibility over the search experience.

For non-technical teams, a low-code/no-code dashboard makes it easy to adjust relevance rules, analyze search performance, and launch changes without engineering resources.

Yes. Algolia’s globally distributed infrastructure is designed to deliver sub-50ms response times, even for sites processing millions of queries per day, making it a reliable choice for enterprise-scale search needs.

Algolia can be implemented in just minutes using our APIs or dashboard,. making it fast to get up and running. Developers have full flexibility to customize search behavior, while non-technical teams can easily manage relevance, boost or bury results, and set up merchandising rules using our intuitive low-code or no-code interface. You can also track performance and optimize search with built-in analytics, no coding required

Algolia’s built-in analytics dashboard makes it easy to track key metrics like query performance, click-through rates, zero-result searches, and personalization impact. From there, you can fine-tune relevance, run A/B tests, and apply smart merchandising rules to continuously improve results and drive better business outcomes.

You can start with a free trial that lets you explore Algolia AI Search using your own data or sample data. During the trial, you can upload your product listings, content, or documents, test the platform's features firsthand, and measure how it improves performance and user experience before making a commitment.