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Coveo vs Elastic Search comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Coveo
Ranking in Indexing and Search
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
AI Research (1st)
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 (8th), Search as a Service (1st), Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Coveo is 6.0%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Elastic Search is 9.6%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Elastic Search9.6%
Coveo6.0%
Other84.4%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2903370 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Project Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees
Search insights have reduced no-result queries and guide visitors quickly to relevant content
In my opinion, the best features Coveo offers are that it's quick, it's easy to navigate, and if you have something you want to know, Coveo is very helpful in helping you find out how to get the information that you need and sort the information that you need. Of those features, the main thing I find myself appreciating the most in my day-to-day work is being able to find what I need without spending a huge amount of time. The speed and easy navigation are important; there are other tools that do the same thing, but finding what I need quickly really matters.
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

"After migrating to Coveo, it took less than 10 milliseconds to load all this data."
"Before moving to Coveo, we had metrics of user clicks around two million, but after we went live with Coveo, user clicks and all view analytics jumped up over 3.5 million, which was a significant upgrade after implementing Coveo."
"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."
"Coveo positively impacted our organization by drastically reducing the time needed to provide solutions on the support case side, as agents no longer have to sift through all documents, resulting in decreased response time and reduced case volume since customers can verify the knowledge available before creating a case."
"Coveo is scalable and I have not seen any latency issue."
"In terms of accuracy and reliability of output, I believe Coveo is probably the best in market scenarios."
"Coveo already has a very good e-learning platform with multiple courses to learn and certifications to achieve, so it is very good in terms of the learning curve for new users or developers working with it."
"What we are seeing is that our sales have significantly increased by twenty to thirty percent just within one year of using Coveo."
"Elastic Search is the perfect tool for scalability."
"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."
"We are developing a SIEM application that is similar to QRadar, ArcSight, or Splunk, and this application uses Elasticsearch as its search engine because we want to retrieve information fast."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the Discovery option for the visualization of logs on a GPU instead of on the server."
"There are a lot of good things about this solution. First, it is an extremely fast search. We have quite an extensive number of logs, and we can search through billions of documents in just a few minutes, and get the results we're looking for."
"The tool's stability and performance are good."
"Dashboard is very customizable."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the opportunity to search behind and between different logs."
 

Cons

"The main reason I rate it an eight out of ten is that while Coveo is very capable, there is still some room for improvement regarding the developer experience."
"The learning curve can be steep for new developers, especially when working with relevance tuning, query pipelines, and advanced configurations."
"The main area I would improve is the learning curve because there are many concepts and configuration options, and understanding how indexing, query pipelines, security, and all those pieces work together requires experience."
"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."
"One area of improvement for Coveo is the size limitation concerning response results."
"I faced some challenges regarding the accuracy of the search results with Coveo."
"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."
"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."
"Pagination in Elastic Search is very slow."
"I think the pricing of Elastic Search is really, really expensive."
"Scalability and ROI are the areas they have to improve."
"Elasticsearch could improve by honoring Unix environmental variables and not relying only on those provided by Java (e.g. installing plugins over the Unix http proxy)."
"Machine learning on search needs improvement."
"The UI point of view is not very powerful because it is dependent on Kibana."
"Better dashboards or a better configuration system would be very good."
"The metadata gets stored along with indexes and isn't queryable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool is an open-source product."
"Elastic Search is open-source, but you need to pay for support, which is expensive."
"We are using the open-sourced version."
"The price of Elasticsearch is fair. It is a more expensive solution, like QRadar. The price for Elasticsearch is not much more than other solutions we have."
"We are paying $1,500 a month to use the solution. If you want to have endpoint protection you need to pay more."
"It can be expensive."
"The solution is affordable."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise50
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coveo?
I didn't work on the licensing part of Coveo because I was an employee and not the manager.
What needs improvement with Coveo?
Coveo can improve by supporting a few more languages. For example, we have tested with English and Chinese and a bit of French. I think Coveo can come up with indexing and searching with non-native...
What is your primary use case for Coveo?
I used Coveo for content indexing and content search from AEM, and I have used it for multiple languages. The content was available in English language and Chinese language, so our requirement was ...
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...
 

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Also Known As

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Elastic Enterprise Search, Swiftype, Elastic Cloud
 

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