Every category where a model named Algolia for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Ecommerce search and merchandising	Marketing	25%	1 of 74	19%	63	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Algolia yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Algolia across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	0	1	5
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	1	0	4
Grok 4.20	3	2	1	0	6
Mistral Small	0	3	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	2	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	1	2	6
Kimi K2	3	0	1	2	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	0	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	2	3
GPT-6 Luna	3	0	0	1	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	1	2	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct31 labels7

Paraphrase34 labels14

Comparative39 labels19not counted in share

Budget-constrained29 labels4

Scale-constrained23 labels7

Negative35 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative191 labels in all, every segment counted; 32 of the 54 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Algolia combines keyword and vector search within a unified engine, delivering typo-tolerant, semantic results with sub-second response times” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Ecommerce search · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best known for speed, developer friendliness, and API-first flexibility... If you want fast implementation + strong APIs: Algolia” GPT-5.4 mini · Ecommerce search · comparative prompt · first choice

“*Algolia:* Known for blazing-fast speed, excellent developer documentation, and growing AI features. Excellent for headless setups.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Ecommerce search · scale prompt · first choice

“Fastest setup (can implement in hours), excellent relevance with AI re-ranking, InstantSearch UI library, strong analytics” MiniMax M2.5 · Ecommerce search · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Be terrified of consumption-based pricing (Algolia and Coveo both have "cliff" pricing models that blow up as you grow).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · hard negative

“What to avoid on a limited budget: Algolia — starts free but escalates quickly into $300–$500+/month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · hard negative

“Algolia draws setup-complexity, cost, and support complaints... It is risky if you want predictable pricing and merchandiser-owned tooling without engineering tickets.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · soft negative

“You're cost-sensitive, have unpredictable traffic, or lack engineering support. Reviewers flag costs rising with usage” GPT-6 Luna · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Algolia, over the 191 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Algolia was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bloomreach Discovery119 of 19111Compare →

Coveo99 of 19118Compare →

Klevu96 of 19111Compare →

Constructor78 of 1917Not among the top eight

Searchspring73 of 1916Compare →

Doofinder68 of 19127Compare →

Nosto46 of 1914Not among the top eight

Searchanise35 of 19113Not among the top eight

Elasticsearch34 of 1912Not among the top eight

Luigi's Box31 of 1910Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Algolia. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 179 of the 191 answers that named Algolia and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com113

netguru.com89

clerk.io73

valiantceo.com68

g2.com65

zoovu.com62

ringly.io59

learn.g2.com57

gitnux.org55

algolia.comYour site54

641 of the 695 domain citations in answers naming Algolia came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-ecommerce-search-software92

netguru.com/blog/ecommerce-search-solutions-product-discovery84

valiantceo.com/the-7-best-ecommerce-search-and-discovery-platforms68

zoovu.com/blog/best-ecommerce-search-engine61

learn.g2.com/best-e-merchandising-software54

guideflow.com/blog/best-e-merchandising-software53

gitnux.org/best/ecommerce-merchandising-software47

cs-cart.com/blog/best-ecommerce-search-engines43

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Algolia stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “best ecommerce search and merchandising platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 9,900 a month (“algolia”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 276 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 72,991 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,873 · 306 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 17,308
Paid Google search: 4 searches its ads show for, about 130 clicks and $2,774 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 92 image, 16 text, 12 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2025, as ALGOLIA INC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 120 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

25%

rank 1 of 74 in ecommerce search

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 191 answers
Its own site cited: in 179 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on algolia.com

9,397

subdomains included

Content

2,452

counted in the table below

Documentation

771

Product · Integration

35 · 282

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	1,063	0	2025-08-06	SEO, Mobile apps
Report or ebook	734	undated
News or press	237	undated		Ecommerce
Template or tool	156	undated
Case study	83	undated
Glossary or explainer	70	2	2026-08-06
Webinar or virtual event	49	0	2022-03-18
Comparison	29	0	2026-02-04
Conference or event	28	undated
Podcast or video	3	0	2024-07-25

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How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page algolia.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Algolia

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Algolia; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Follow Algolia

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Algolia.

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On record

Wikidata

Website: algolia.com
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2012

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Algolia's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Algolia, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Algolia by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Algolia is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Algolia, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Algolia is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Algolia first in Ecommerce search and merchandising this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/ecommerce-search-and-merchandising/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/algolia--ecommerce-search-and-merchandising-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Ecommerce search and merchandising, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Ecommerce search and merchandising standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/ecommerce-search-and-merchandising/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/algolia--ecommerce-search-and-merchandising-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Ecommerce search and merchandising, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Ecommerce search and merchandising standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/ecommerce-search-and-merchandising/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/algolia--ecommerce-search-and-merchandising-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Ecommerce search and merchandising, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Ecommerce search and merchandising standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.