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Algolia vs Glean Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Algolia
Ranking in Search as a Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Glean Platform
Ranking in Search as a Service
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (2nd), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Software Development (8th), AI Customer Support (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Algolia is 8.2%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 4.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Algolia8.2%
Glean Platform4.8%
Other87.0%
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Featured Reviews

Kozykorpesh Tolep - PeerSpot reviewer
software engineer at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real-time search has improved device monitoring and now needs better relevance tuning and cost clarity
One area for Algolia's improvement is the relevance of tuning and configuration because it can take some time to properly configure ranking and filtering for a specific use case. If you are new to this or do not have experience with the tuning and configuration of the search, that can take some time to adapt and use this search engine. To make it better, I would appreciate improvement in the relevance of tuning and configuration, as it takes time to properly configure ranking and filtering. I can also say that transparency for scaling usage and cost transparency for when you are scaling would be beneficial.
Ananya Bl - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at Capgemini
Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilities
Orchestration primarily decides which agent handles which part of a task and manages errors, retries, and complete state while maintaining the workflow effectively. On the orchestration side, branching, looping, and human approvals support non-linear workflows in production environments with real-time access. Through refined and improved prompts, this helps in closing the loop with actual users. One unique feature that stood out is that every step in the workflow can pause or recover from failures. Instead of finishing the entire agent in one go, this approach is interesting because if there is a minor change in a previously completed step regarding the state, I can re-edit and restart from the beginning. This is truly impressive.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Since Algolia is a SaaS solution, we didn't have to maintain servers, look at the indexes, and monitor services."
"Algolia has positively impacted our organization by allowing us a faster time to market."
"We have seen a significant improvement in user engagement with instant search enabling them to quickly find what they are looking for."
"Algolia has impacted my organization positively in a good way, as it has shaped the product and it feels as though the product has a premium search engine behind it."
"Algolia provides extremely fast search performance, which is particularly useful for projects with big data and many data points."
"It's scalable. It can be scaled massively."
"It has many fine-tuning configurations. Essentially, every single piece of information you pass through it is a free document you can tailor."
"The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"The best features Glean Platform offers are mostly the view, which I think is very good, and what I find most helpful about the view is that the user interface is very good, making it very easy to chat with the chatbot and get all the material that I want in the way that I need it."
"The major impact that I have noticed is how business users are now being impacted and they are using the platform because they understand it easily."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted my organization by speeding up a lot of repetitive tasks and making it easier for people outside of support to understand what kind of issues impact the support groups."
"Glean Platform offers excellent user interface design and integration capabilities with other platforms."
"Since I have joined, I have built around ninety agents with Glean Platform, and it has saved our organization around twenty-seven hours a week for each user, and it has also positively impacted our ARR."
"Productivity has really skyrocketed."
"When I searched for internal information spread across different systems, Glean Platform did centralize and retrieve that data for me effectively, giving me eighty percent accuracy."
"I have used many solutions, but Glean Platform is the best, and I would truly appreciate it if everyone considers this platform."
 

Cons

"The documentation is not beginner-friendly."
"One downside of Algolia is pricing, which can get expensive as your data and query volume scale."
"The biggest issue is cost; Algolia gets expensive fast as your record count and search operations grow."
"When indexing the products, one may face some issues with the tool."
"I would prefer if Algolia offered some sort of volume discounts if that is possible, as right now they are not the best when it comes to discounts, and it is a bit expensive as we grow, to be straightforward."
"Algolia provides a certification, which is pretty basic, and I think it can be improved in terms of a bit more detail and more elaborative content."
"One area for Algolia's improvement is the relevance of tuning and configuration because it can take some time to properly configure ranking and filtering for a specific use case."
"I think they could improve the analytics view."
"I tried pulling in an architecture diagram of a workflow, and it pulled in some other image instead."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licenses were expensive, and it was hard to convince the company to adopt based on that."
"Also, the latency that the platform offers is a little high right now; what I have noticed is that on a particular query, the user has to wait a long time in order to get responses."
"There are multiple ways in which Glean Platform can be improved."
"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."
"Glean Platform can implement more models. The NLP creation could be a little faster, and while debugging is amazing, the routing also needs to provide higher quality outputs sometimes rather than extensive searching."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available."
"I chose seven out of ten because if I could upload PDFs and have them analyzed, or have it integrate with my Gmail and help me go through my emails, that would be very useful, but I do not think it does that."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Algolia is a cool, super-easy-to-use, and affordable tool."
"In terms of the cost of Algolia, the tool is really expensive for us in Brazil since it comes to about half a million dollars."
"The product is cheap."
"For any developer starting out, it is worth it."
"I have heard that Algolia is an expensive solution."
"We are currently on a contract with Algolia for licensing and price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Algolia?
Pricing can be steep as usage scales up, so a more flexible or transparent tiering model might help. I would like to suggest having more detailed cost prediction tools so teams can forecast usage s...
What needs improvement with Algolia?
One improvement I suggest for Algolia is offering even more granular control in the dashboard for A/B testing and search configurations, which could help refine relevance more quickly. Pricing can ...
What is your primary use case for Algolia?
Our main use case for Algolia is powering our website's product search, and it helps customers instantly find relevant items, even with partial queries. Algolia solved a unique challenge for us by ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Glean Platform?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available.
What needs improvement with Glean Platform?
In workflow agents, I would prefer that we do not use AI in every step and instead we have a toggle button or something which can configure whether AI should be used in this specific search field o...
What is your primary use case for Glean Platform?
I use Glean Platform as an enterprise search tool and I am a power user of agents, so I mostly use this on a day-to-day basis for random searches that I need to do about a company, a website, or if...
 

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Glean Work AI Platform
 

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Sample Customers

Birchbox, Twitch, Lacoste, Stripe, WW, Medium, Cousera, National Geographic, Zendesk, Magento
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