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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
16
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 (3rd), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Software Development (6th), AI Customer Support (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Algolia is 8.8%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 5.0%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Algolia8.8%
Glean Platform5.0%
Other86.2%
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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.
reviewer2810748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Creating low-code agents has transformed policy queries and now saves employees hours daily
What I would like to see is an ease by which I can have different connectors set up. Right now I have to do a lot of back and forth in order to have these connectors enabled. Having them by default on the platform would be very helpful for me. Also, when developing custom actions, having a developer portal where users can track the log of how the requests are being sent to custom endpoints created would be helpful because right now I do not have anything of that nature. It is just a final response that I get and it becomes very difficult to keep track of what is happening in the backend. 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. If there is a way to reduce this time and improve performance by decreasing the time for responses, that would be very good. I believe that the latency offered is a little high right now. If I can get prompt responses quickly, then that would be a real user experience enhancement. Also, what I have noticed is the problem that developers face when creating custom actions in Glean Platform, where we are not able to keep track of what is happening in the backend. A logger of sorts would be very good so that I can maintain an idea of what is happening in the backend. If that issue is resolved, along with also the issue of having custom connectors available from the start rather than going to Glean Platform and having conversations about the thing, then it would be very good. If these issues are resolved, then it would be a strong 10 out of 10 from me. But as of now, it will be an 8 out of 10. Glean Platform is a very capable platform. It is good for indexing documents and reducing manual workflows by incorporating an element of AI in it. Business usage can be increased as well. The one caveat is if there are developers who are creating actions on Glean Platform, then I must keep an eye on the logging that I have for the platform because interacting with the backend systems becomes very difficult using Glean Platform. Also, what I have noticed is that it is a real challenge in terms of latency as some of the responses may take a little while to load. However, what I have noticed is that the responses are usually very accurate, and so it is a trade-off between speed and accuracy. This is what I would advise to someone who is looking at Glean Platform.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Algolia has impacted our organization positively by boosting the overall user engagement trends that we can see on the analytics."
"The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click through rate."
"Algolia provides some cool functionalities like filtering, indexing, and searching."
"The tool is easy to use, but you need to know how it works."
"Algolia has positively impacted our organization by allowing us a faster time to market."
"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 has significantly improved our user experience, and we saw search conversion rates increase by around 15% after implementing it."
"Algolia provides extremely fast search performance, which is particularly useful for projects with big data and many data points."
"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."
"Glean Platform has positively impacted our organization, especially in terms of productivity for both us and our customers."
"Glean Platform offers excellent user interface design and integration capabilities with other platforms."
"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."
"Life became so easy when we started using Glean Platform."
"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."
"The best features Glean Platform offers include the ability to create my own agents, for example, I created a self-service agent for my stakeholders, so rather than email me, I sent them a link to an agent where the agent asks them questions and drills down to exactly what they need, and then I get a qualified response from them."
"Productivity has really skyrocketed."
 

Cons

"The documentation for the service is not as good as it could be."
"Pricing can be steep as usage scales up, so a more flexible or transparent tiering model might help."
"Algolia is not adopted that much, and it would be great if it were made more popular."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The deployment could be easier for beginners."
"The biggest issue is cost; Algolia gets expensive fast as your record count and search operations grow."
"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."
"I believe that Algolia could be better economically; it should work in a way whereby you can provide better pricing patterns."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."
"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."
"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."
"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 for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I have heard that Algolia is an expensive solution."
"The product is cheap."
"Algolia is a cool, super-easy-to-use, and affordable tool."
"For any developer starting out, it is worth it."
"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."
"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%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
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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