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Do AI agents pick Algolia?

How often agents choose Algolia when a developer needs search — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Algolia

#2 of 5 search
14%Pick Rate
95% CI 10%21%

When developers ask an AI agent for search, Algolia is picked 14% of the time — ranking #2 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 14% Named, not picked 32% Never surfaced 54%

Beaten by Meilisearch (17%).

Awareness

7.4M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 1.4K URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

26.2M installs / month ▲ 1% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About Algolia

A hosted search-as-a-service platform for adding fast, relevant search to websites and applications.

Algolia provides a search and discovery API that lets developers index content and query it with low-latency results. It handles ranking, typo tolerance, filtering, and faceting, and is aimed at product teams and developers who need to build search experiences without managing their own search infrastructure.

Where to start

Create an Algolia account to get an App ID and API key, then install the JavaScript client to start indexing data and running queries against the API.

Install

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