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Coveo vs Elastic Search comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Coveo
Ranking in Indexing and Search
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
AI Research (7th)
Elastic Search
Ranking in Indexing and Search
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
100
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (5th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Coveo is 5.7%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.4%, down from 21.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.4%
Coveo5.7%
Other84.9%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

RS
Lead Engineer Senior Forntend 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

"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."
"Coveo provides a search engine experience that is superior when compared to the other search engines available in the market as of now."
"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."
"What we are seeing is that our sales have significantly increased by twenty to thirty percent just within one year of using Coveo."
"There's lots of processing power. You can actually just add machines to get more performance if you need to. It's pretty flexible and very easy to add another log. It's not like 'oh, no, it's going to be so much extra data'. That's not a problem for the machine. It can handle it."
"The most valuable feature of Elasticsearch is its convenience in handling unstructured data."
"I really like the visualization that you can do within it; that's really handy, and product-wise, it is a very good and stable product."
"I think that Elasticsearch is a good product and cheaper than Splunk."
"Elastic Search positively impacts my company with many benefits across multiple use cases; for example, it enables quick dashboard setups for client reviews and presents data efficiently, ensuring good user experience."
"Elasticsearch helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can produce visualisations in Kibana."
"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."
"ELK Elasticsearch is 100% scalable as scalability is built into the design"
 

Cons

"While Coveo is overall very fast, I find the development integration somewhat challenging."
"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."
"I chose eight out of ten because we have some limitations, such as when we share heavy data, where a large number of data takes more time for Coveo to process; that is one area where Coveo needs to improve, but apart from that, it is good."
"I would give Coveo a nine out of ten because the response and everything is fine, but the technical team of Coveo helps us, yet I think it is not one hundred percent."
"I see that there are areas in Elastic Search that have room for improvement, such as user documentation and onboarding processes."
"Elastic Search needs to improve its technical support. It should be customer-friendly and have good support."
"The documentation for Elastic Search can be challenging if you're not already familiar with the platform."
"Elasticsearch is useful for different business processes, but there are some problems."
"There are some features and functionality that could be enhanced in Elastic Search to improve its overall capabilities."
"There is another solution I'm testing which has a 500 record limit when you do a search on Elastic Enterprise Search."
"The deployment was a struggle as I faced challenges with bash commands and understanding how to run things on my system."
"Elastic Enterprise Search could improve the report templates."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price could be better."
"To access all the features available you require both the open source license and the production license."
"An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk."
"We are using the Community Edition because Elasticsearch's licensing model is not flexible or suitable for us. They ask for an annual subscription. We also got the development consultancy from Elasticsearch for 60 days or something like that, but they were just trying to do the same trick. That's why we didn't purchase it. We are just using the Community Edition."
"ELK has been considered as an alternative to Splunk to reduce licensing costs."
"we are using a licensed version of the product."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
"The pricing model is questionable and needs to be addressed because when you would like to have the security they charge per machine."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coveo?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that these things are mostly managed by our senior teams. We do not have much idea on what cost we are paying to them. It is not much of my ...
What needs improvement with Coveo?
Coveo can improve based on the rules we have provided in our CMS platform; in my case, we are using a CMS platform integrated with Coveo, so the rules we are providing, called Coveo rules, generate...
What is your primary use case for Coveo?
My main use case for Coveo is that I use it as a search engine for my websites. A quick specific example of how I use Coveo as a search engine for my websites is that we mostly used it for article ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ELK Elasticsearch?
The pricing for Elastic Search is mainly budgeted according to the organization budget, so we take it as a yearly subscription, and that is acceptable since we do get a fair discount when we are ta...
What needs improvement with ELK Elasticsearch?
When we get the logs, it is mostly about how we edit the configurations and how we make changes according to the requirements of our organization. In these cases, the logs sometimes can be a bit in...
What is your primary use case for ELK Elasticsearch?
I am the Elastic Search admin for my organization, and we are using Elastic Search to handle the traffic to GCP. The monitoring of all the clusters and all the deployments are quite good, and compa...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

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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
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