# Algolia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/algolia/  
**Website:** https://www.algolia.com  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Algolia is a hosted search and discovery platform that delivers fast, typo-tolerant search, browse, recommendations, and personalization through a suite of REST APIs and edge-distributed infrastructure. It powers search experiences for ecommerce, media, SaaS, and content sites, pairing a synchronous indexing and query control plane with event-driven Insights, Recommend, A/B Testing, and Personalization products.

## Kin Score — 20.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (11)

- **Algolia Search API** — Core indexing and search API for adding, updating, and deleting records and querying them with typo-tolerant, faceted, geo-aware, and rule-driven search served from globally dis...
- **Algolia Insights API** — Inbound event-ingestion API for click, conversion, view, and purchase signals that feed Personalization, Recommend, A/B Testing, and Analytics. Accepts events; does not emit them.
- **Algolia Recommend API** — Returns related-products, frequently-bought-together, trending, and look-alike recommendations trained from Insights events and catalog data.
- **Algolia Analytics API** — Reports top searches, no-result searches, click/conversion rates, and other search analytics aggregated from query and Insights data.
- **Algolia A/B Testing API** — Creates and manages A/B tests across index configurations and relevance settings, scoring variants on click-through and conversion.
- **Algolia Personalization API** — Configures and applies user-affinity profiles built from Insights events to re-rank search and browse results per user.
- **Algolia Crawler API** — Manages Algolia's hosted web crawler that extracts content from websites and pushes it into indices on a schedule.
- **Algolia Ingestion API** — Connector-based data ingestion that pulls records from sources (databases, storage, ecommerce platforms) into Algolia indices via managed tasks.
- **Algolia Query Suggestions API** — Generates and maintains query-suggestion indices from popular searches to power as-you-type autocomplete.
- **Algolia Monitoring API** — Exposes server status, latency, indexing, and reachability metrics for an application's Algolia infrastructure.
- **Algolia Usage API** — Returns per-application usage metrics (operations, records, search volume) for cost and quota tracking.

## Security (1)

- **Algolia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Algolia Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Discovery, Recommendations, Personalization, Analytics, E-Commerce

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/algolia/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.