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Coveo vs Elastic Search comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Coveo
Ranking in Indexing and Search
4th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
AI Research (6th)
Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Coveo is 5.3%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 10.9%, down from 24.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search10.9%
Coveo5.3%
Other83.8%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

RS
Senior FrontEnd Developer at Adobe
Intelligent search has transformed our ecommerce personalization and drives higher conversions
Coveo fits into our workflow as the core engine of our search, which makes our users' experience amazing by providing us with insights on what products are being sold more and what kind of customers in what regions understand or require what kind of products. Those minimalistic details are what Coveo has provided us with and improved our website interaction. The best features Coveo offers include the AI-powered search that analyzes the region, the user, specific products, or preferences and needs, automatically sharing that information. Additionally, the search it provides is extremely fast and features an auto-search option that gives users basic details, images, and offers in the search field itself. The AI-powered search actually helps our team by allowing users to search for products based on their preferences, with caching available that makes the search fast for users. This has increased our throughput time and the number of users engaged with our application, leading to more purchases. The biggest feature I would highlight about Coveo is the AI enhancements and advancements they have made. Beyond that, the website search for products is faster, and we use it for some of our internal employee search applications as well, making it an amazing tool to utilize.
reviewer2817942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Logging and vector search have transformed observability and empowered reliable ai agents
Elastic Search is not specifically being used for certain purposes. I deploy Elastic Search database on the cloud and use cloud services so that nobody can attack. However, I do not use Elastic Search to resolve attack issues. The basic main purpose of Elastic Search, as of now, I feel it can do more in the AI area. Sometime I saw that when I am developing RAG and have to generate the embeddings, which I call metadata, sometimes it tries to fail. That durability or issue handling should be improved, but apart from that, I did not find anything as of now. As per my use case, whatever I am using seems pretty good. Apart from that, some definitely improvement will be there. One improvement is that it should be faster. Whenever I am searching any logs, it takes much time. For example, if I open my log in Notepad or a similar tool, I can search the text within a second. With Elastic Search, it takes a little bit of time, ten to fifteen seconds. That can be improved. Sometimes, engineers take time to assign when I create a ticket.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Coveo provides AI-driven search results and proper recommendations based on customer interaction and context, which is very beneficial for us because it improves our order conversion rate, allowing customers to find the exact products they want and see similar products, greatly increasing upselling."
"AI-enabled query suggestions help users return more frequently and build trust in the search capabilities our site offers, allowing us to drive content towards users based on popular queries."
"I would highly recommend Coveo as it is smart, fast, relevant, and especially suitable for big sites and large e-commerce setups."
"The solution has a lot of features; they have machine learning jobs they can implement, I'm not there yet, but I can use anomaly detection to see there are various processes that can find users that aren't supposed to log onto certain machines."
"The security portion of Elasticsearch is particularly beneficial, allowing me to view and analyze security alerts."
"The special text processing features in this solution are very important for me."
"This product has notably improved the way we store and use logs, from having a more user-friendly, centralized solution (for those who just needed a quick glance, without being masters of sed and awk) to implementing various mechanisms for machine-learning from our logs, and sending alerts for anomalies."
"In the last 18 months Elastic has really caught up and also gone way beyond AWS by putting together all the missing components that make ELK Elasticsearch the most comprehensive stack in the entire Big Data ecosystem."
"Elastic Enterprise Search is a very good solution and they should keep doing good work."
"Elastic Search has excellent features, particularly its scalability and speed."
"The flexibility and the support for diverse languages that it provides for searching the database are most valuable, and we can use different languages to query the database."
 

Cons

"In a general sense, we are not seeing a remarkable return on investment because maintaining Coveo for our search functionality is costly, and we have to balance investments in search versus other areas."
"One area of improvement for Coveo is the size limitation concerning response results."
"While Coveo is overall very fast, I find the development integration somewhat challenging."
"From the UI point of view, we are using most probably Kibana, and I think they can do much better than that."
"Elastic Enterprise Search can improve by adding some kind of search that can be used out of the box without too much struggle with configuration. With every kind of search engine, there is some kind of special function that you need to do. A simple out-of-the-box search would be useful."
"Performance improvement could come from skipping background refresh on search idle shards (which is already being addressed in the upcoming seventh version)."
"Improving machine learning capabilities would be beneficial."
"An improvement would be to have an interface that allows easier navigation and tracing of logs."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search."
"To do what we want to do with Elastic Search, the queries can get complex and require a fuller understanding of the DSL."
"I think Elastic Search could be improved by introducing more AI features, particularly for complex queries and aggregator functions to enhance usability and readability."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This product is open-source and can be used free of charge."
"It can move from $10,000 US Dollars per year to any price based on how powerful you need the searches to be and the capacity in terms of storage and process."
"The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model."
"The version of Elastic Enterprise Search I am using is open source which is free. The pricing model should improve for the enterprise version because it is very expensive."
"There is a free version, and there is also a hosted version for which you have to pay. We're currently using the free version. If things go well, we might go for the paid version."
"we are using a licensed version of the product."
"The premium license is expensive."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
10%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business39
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise47
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coveo?
I am not aware of the pricing, but the setup cost and the team's support have been very helpful in terms of initial support and addressing any queries we have.
What needs improvement with Coveo?
While Coveo is overall very fast, I find the development integration somewhat challenging. As the documentation states in detail, sometimes a few things do not work on mobile or on the desktop, and...
What is your primary use case for Coveo?
My main use case for Coveo is on one of my e-commerce websites where I have used it as a search platform that allows users to search for products, filter results, and view metadata and details. I h...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
When it comes to pricing, I think we had to pay AWS approximately 1,000 to 1,200 per month for the overall stack. I am not quite certain about how much Elastic Search costs specifically because I w...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
Elastic Search has many features, including Kibana and Logstash, which we regularly use. However, one downside in our product is cost, as it can be expensive when maintaining multiple shards and in...
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
As a developer, I use Elastic Search in developing one of my applications, basically integrating the back-end with Elastic Search. Our main use case for Elastic Search is for Logstash, which is a s...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Sonus, 3i Group, Adobe, AECOM, American Society of Anesthesiologists, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group, Centre dÍaccs ö lÍinformation juridique, Genesys, GoPro, Harris, Imprivata, L'Oreal, KeyBank, VMware
T-Mobile, Adobe, Booking.com, BMW, Telegraph Media Group, Cisco, Karbon, Deezer, NORBr, Labelbox, Fingerprint, Relativity, NHS Hospital, Met Office, Proximus, Go1, Mentat, Bluestone Analytics, Humanz, Hutch, Auchan, Sitecore, Linklaters, Socren, Infotrack, Pfizer, Engadget, Airbus, Grab, Vimeo, Ticketmaster, Asana, Twilio, Blizzard, Comcast, RWE and many others.
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