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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
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
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."
"Coveo provides a search engine experience that is superior when compared to the other search engines available in the market as of now."
"I would highly recommend Coveo as it is smart, fast, relevant, and especially suitable for big sites and large e-commerce setups."
"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."
"Coveo is scalable and I have not seen any latency issue."
"What we are seeing is that our sales have significantly increased by twenty to thirty percent just within one year of using Coveo."
"Even compared to Splunk, Elastic Search has a good easy-to-use user interface, as even non-technical people can easily search and easily observe the logs and easily track the applications."
"Elastic Enterprise Search is scalable. On a scale of one to 10, with one being not scalable and 10 being very scalable, I give Elastic Enterprise Search a 10."
"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."
"I think that Elasticsearch is a good product and cheaper than Splunk."
"You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used."
"It is stable."
"We can easily collect all the data and view historical trends using the product. We can view the applications and identify the issues effectively."
"The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana."
 

Cons

"While Coveo is overall very fast, I find the development integration somewhat challenging."
"Coveo can improve by supporting a few more languages."
"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."
"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."
"This product could be improved with additional security, and the addition of support for machine learning devices."
"I think Elastic Search could be improved by introducing more AI features, particularly for complex queries and aggregator functions to enhance usability and readability."
"According to me, as far as I have seen, people will start moving from Elastic Search sooner or later. Why? Because it is expensive."
"It needs email notification, similar to what Logentries has."
"This solution is stable, but at times the stack will freeze and you have to remove and recreate the cluster."
"The solution has quite a steep learning curve. The usability and general user-friendliness could be improved. However, that is kind of typical with products that have a lot of flexibility, or a lot of capabilities. Sometimes having more choices makes things more complex. It makes it difficult to configure it, though. It's kind of a bitter pill that you have to swallow in the beginning and you really have to get through it."
"It was not possible to use authentication three years back. You needed to buy the product's services for authentication."
"Scalability and ROI are the areas they have to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The cost varies based on factors like usage volume, network load, data storage size, and service utilization. If your usage isn't too extensive, the cost will be lower."
"It can be expensive."
"The tool is not expensive. Its licensing costs are yearly."
"We are paying $1,500 a month to use the solution. If you want to have endpoint protection you need to pay more."
"The solution is not expensive because users have the option of choosing the managed or the subscription model."
"This is a free, open source software (FOSS) tool, which means no cost on the front-end. There are no free lunches in this world though. Technical skill to implement and support are costly on the back-end with ELK, whether you train/hire internally or go for premium services from Elastic."
"Although the ELK Elasticsearch software is open-source, we buy the hardware."
"The pricing structure depends on the scalability steps."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
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
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
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
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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