Algolia

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. Algolia generates every first-party API client and its reference documentation from 15 public OpenAPI documents totalling 342 operations, and has extended the platform into the agent layer with two managed MCP servers, an Agent Studio runtime and 18 self-published Agent Skills.

Algolia publishes 16 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Search API, Insights API, Recommend API, and 13 more. Tagged areas include Search, Discovery, Recommendations, Personalization, and Analytics.

Algolia’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, pricing, and 33 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

74.4/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 62/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessPaid

15 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Search Discovery Recommendations Personalization Analytics E-Commerce

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 74.4/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 9.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.8 / 15

Access Clarity 15.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 7.4 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 6.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 3.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 62/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/algolia: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

APIs 16

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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 distr...

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, plus the Recommend rules that overri...

Algolia Analytics API

Reports top searches, no-result searches, click and conversion rates, revenue and other search analytics aggregated from query and Insights data. One of only six Algolia APIs th...

Algolia A/B Testing API

Creates and manages A/B tests across index configurations and relevance settings, scoring variants on click-through and conversion. Two live versions: v3 is current, and the ent...

Algolia Personalization API

Configures and applies user-affinity profiles built from Insights events to re-rank search and browse results per user.

Algolia Advanced Personalization API

The successor to classic Personalization: real-time user profiles, personalization strategies and a dedicated error-code reference. Runs on its own AI personalization host and p...

Algolia Crawler API

Manages Algolia's hosted web crawler that extracts content from websites and pushes it into indices on a schedule. The only Algolia API that authenticates with HTTP Basic rather...

Algolia Ingestion API

Connector-based data ingestion that pulls records from databases, storage and ecommerce platforms into Algolia indices via managed sources, destinations, transformations and tas...

Algolia Query Suggestions API

Generates and maintains query-suggestion indices from popular searches to power as-you-type autocomplete.

Algolia Composition API

Composes multiple search sources into one curated result set - smart groups, curated queries and composition rules - so a single request returns a merchandised, multi-source res...

Algolia Agent Studio API

Algolia's agent-building runtime: agents, conversations, tools, memory, guardrails and per-turn context, exposed as 42 REST operations. Notably, Agent Studio can itself consume ...

Algolia Monitoring API

Exposes server status, latency, indexing and reachability metrics for a specific application's Algolia infrastructure. More than a status page: an agent can query the health of ...

Algolia Usage API

Returns per-application usage metrics (operations, records, search volume) for cost and quota tracking. The one documented Algolia REST API for which no OpenAPI document is publ...

Algolia Productivity MCP Server

Algolia-managed remote MCP server giving an agent user-scoped, read-only access to search, index listing and the full analytics surface, authorized by the signed-in user's own A...

Algolia Ab Testing API

The Ab Testing API from Algolia — 6 operation(s) for ab testing.

Scroll for all 16

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Algolia MCP Server

Algolia ships TWO first-party, Algolia-managed remote MCP servers. Neither is a stdio package a developer runs locally - both are hosted HTTPS endpoints an MCP client POSTs to, ...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Algolia Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Algolia Rate Limits

12 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Algolia Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Algolia Authentication

apiKey/http · 5 schemes

SECURITY

Algolia Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Algolia Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Algolia Trust Center

read, named, reason, probed

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Algolia Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

MCPServer

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

TrustCenter

Compliance

OAuthScopes

Scroll for all 7

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Status

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: algolia
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/algolia.png
name: Algolia
description: 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. Algolia generates every first-party API client and its reference documentation
  from 15 public OpenAPI documents totalling 342 operations, and has extended the platform into the agent layer with two managed
  MCP servers, an Agent Studio runtime and 18 self-published Agent Skills.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/algolia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-27'
x-source: api-evangelist
x-category: Search
x-type: company
x-tier: 2
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-existing-artifacts
tags:
- Search
- Discovery
- Recommendations
- Personalization
- Analytics
- E-Commerce
tags_raw:
- Search
- Discovery
- Recommendations
- Personalization
- Analytics
- Ecommerce
apis:
- name: Algolia Search API
  description: 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 distributed search nodes. The largest surface in the estate
    at 78 operations, and the one carrying the retry strategy, asynchronous-task and API-key ACL semantics the rest of the
    platform inherits.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/search/
  baseURL: https://{appid}-dsn.algolia.net
  tags:
  - Search
  - Indexing
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/search/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-algoliasearch-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-search-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Insights API
  description: 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, which is why Algolia publishes no AsyncAPI or webhook contract.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/insights/
  baseURL: https://insights.algolia.io
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Event
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/insights/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-insights-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Recommend API
  description: Returns related-products, frequently-bought-together, trending and look-alike recommendations trained from
    Insights events and catalog data, plus the Recommend rules that override them.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/recommend/
  baseURL: https://{appid}-dsn.algolia.net
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/recommend/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-recommend-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-recommend-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Analytics API
  description: Reports top searches, no-result searches, click and conversion rates, revenue and other search analytics aggregated
    from query and Insights data. One of only six Algolia APIs that returns machine-readable x-ratelimit-* response headers.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/analytics/
  baseURL: https://analytics.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/analytics/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-analytics-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia A/B Testing API
  description: 'Creates and manages A/B tests across index configurations and relevance settings, scoring variants on click-through
    and conversion. Two live versions: v3 is current, and the entire v2 surface is marked deprecated in Algolia''s own contract.'
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/abtesting/
  baseURL: https://analytics.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Experimentation
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/abtesting/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-abtesting-v3-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-abtesting-v3-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Personalization API
  description: Configures and applies user-affinity profiles built from Insights events to re-rank search and browse results
    per user.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/personalization/
  baseURL: https://personalization.{region}.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Personalization
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/personalization/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-personalization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-personalization-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Advanced Personalization API
  description: 'The successor to classic Personalization: real-time user profiles, personalization strategies and a dedicated
    error-code reference. Runs on its own AI personalization host and publishes the only per-product error catalogue in the
    estate.'
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/personalization/advanced-personalization/what-is-advanced-personalization/
  baseURL: https://ai-personalization.{region}.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Personalization
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - REST
  tags_raw:
  - Personalization
  - AI
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/personalization/advanced-personalization/what-is-advanced-personalization/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-advanced-personalization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-advanced-personalization-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Crawler API
  description: Manages Algolia's hosted web crawler that extracts content from websites and pushes it into indices on a schedule.
    The only Algolia API that authenticates with HTTP Basic rather than the x-algolia-* header pair.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/crawler/getting-started/overview/
  baseURL: https://crawler.algolia.com/api
  tags:
  - Crawler
  - Ingestion
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/crawler/getting-started/overview/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-crawler-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-crawler-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Ingestion API
  description: Connector-based data ingestion that pulls records from databases, storage and ecommerce platforms into Algolia
    indices via managed sources, destinations, transformations and tasks. The largest connector surface at 61 operations,
    and the only Algolia API with real dry-run operations.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/ingestion/
  baseURL: https://data.{region}.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Ingestion
  - Connectors
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/ingestion/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-ingestion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-ingestion-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Query Suggestions API
  description: Generates and maintains query-suggestion indices from popular searches to power as-you-type autocomplete.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/query-suggestions/
  baseURL: https://query-suggestions.{region}.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Search
  - Autocomplete
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/query-suggestions/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-query-suggestions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-query-suggestions-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Composition API
  description: Composes multiple search sources into one curated result set - smart groups, curated queries and composition
    rules - so a single request returns a merchandised, multi-source response.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/composition/
  baseURL: https://{appId}.algolia.net
  tags:
  - Search
  - Merchandising
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/composition/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-composition-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-composition-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Agent Studio API
  description: 'Algolia''s agent-building runtime: agents, conversations, tools, memory, guardrails and per-turn context,
    exposed as 42 REST operations. Notably, Agent Studio can itself consume third-party MCP tools, so Algolia is both an MCP
    server and an MCP client.'
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/algolia-ai/agent-studio
  baseURL: https://{APPLICATION_ID}.algolia.net/agent-studio
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Agents
  - REST
  tags_raw:
  - AI
  - Agents
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/algolia-ai/agent-studio
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-agent-studio-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-agent-studio-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Monitoring API
  description: 'Exposes server status, latency, indexing and reachability metrics for a specific application''s Algolia infrastructure.
    More than a status page: an agent can query the health of its own cluster rather than the global service.'
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/monitoring/
  baseURL: https://status.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Monitoring
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/monitoring/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-monitoring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/algolia-monitoring-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Algolia Usage API
  description: Returns per-application usage metrics (operations, records, search volume) for cost and quota tracking. The
    one documented Algolia REST API for which no OpenAPI document is published in the api-clients-automation spec repository.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/usage/
  baseURL: https://usage.algolia.com
  tags:
  - Usage
  - FinOps
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/usage/
- name: Algolia Productivity MCP Server
  description: Algolia-managed remote MCP server giving an agent user-scoped, read-only access to search, index listing and
    the full analytics surface, authorized by the signed-in user's own Algolia permissions. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic
    client registration, discoverable via RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol
  baseURL: https://mcp.algolia.com
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Agents
  - Search
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Agents
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/algolia-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/algolia-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/algolia-scopes.yml
- aid: algolia:algolia-ab-testing-api
  name: Algolia Ab Testing API
  description: The Ab Testing API from Algolia — 6 operation(s) for ab testing.
  humanURL: https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/search/
  baseURL: https://{appid}-dsn.algolia.net
  tags:
  - A/B Testing
  tags_raw:
  - Ab Testing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/algolia-ab-testing-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.algolia.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.algolia.com/developers/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/getting-started/quick-start/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.algolia.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.algolia.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/algolia
- type: Signup
  url: https://dashboard.algolia.com/users/sign_up
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.algolia.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.algolia.com/policies/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.algolia.com/policies/privacy/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.algolia.com
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.algolia.com
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.algolia.com/doc/libraries/sdk/changelog/javascript
- type: Plans
  url: plans/algolia-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/algolia-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/algolia-finops.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/algolia-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/algolia-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/algolia-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/algolia-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/algolia-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/algolia-trust-center.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/algolia-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/algolia-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/algolia-cli.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/algolia-components.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/algolia-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/algolia-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/algolia-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/algolia-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/algolia-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/algolia-data-model.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/algolia-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/algolia-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/algolia-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/algolia-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/algolia-tool-crosswalk.yml
features:
- name: Hosted Search Infrastructure
  description: Typo-tolerant, faceted, geo-aware search served from globally distributed search nodes (DSN) with sub-50ms
    latency targets.
- name: Recommendations
  description: Related-products, frequently-bought-together, trending, and look-alike models trained from catalog and event
    data.
- name: Personalization
  description: Per-user re-ranking of results driven by affinity profiles built from Insights events.
- name: A/B Testing
  description: Native experimentation across index configurations and relevance settings scored on engagement.
- name: Crawler and Ingestion
  description: Hosted web crawler plus connector-based ingestion to keep indices in sync with external sources.
- name: Search Analytics
  description: Top searches, no-result queries, and click/conversion analytics for relevance tuning.
useCases:
- name: Ecommerce Site Search
  description: Power product search, browse, and filtering for online stores with merchandising rules and personalization.
- name: Content and Media Discovery
  description: Search across articles, media libraries, and documentation with autocomplete and query suggestions.
- name: In-App Search
  description: Add fast, relevant search to SaaS and mobile applications via official client libraries.
- name: Recommendations and Upsell
  description: Drive related-item and frequently-bought-together widgets from catalog and behavioral data.
integrations:
- name: Ecommerce Platforms
  description: Connectors and apps for Shopify, commercetools, BigCommerce, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
- name: Frontend Libraries
  description: InstantSearch (JavaScript, React, Vue, Angular, iOS, Android) and Autocomplete UI libraries.
- name: Official API Clients
  description: First-party clients for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, C#, Kotlin, Swift, Scala, and Dart.
solutions:
- name: Retail and Ecommerce
  description: Search, browse, merchandising, and recommendations tuned for conversion on product catalogs.
- name: Media and Publishing
  description: Content discovery and recommendation across large editorial and media libraries.
- name: B2B and SaaS
  description: Embedded search and discovery inside applications, dashboards, and documentation.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-artifact-summary:
  openapi_documents: 15
  operations: 342
  deprecated_operations: 25
  mcp_servers: 2
  agent_skills_provider_published: 18
  llms_txt: 2
  contract_source: https://github.com/algolia/api-clients-automation/tree/main/specs/bundled
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 88
  pass: local-v1

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/algolia"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/algolia/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/algolia/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.