Algolia AI Recommendations

Flexible, hosted recommendation API with advanced programmatic control.

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PRODUCT_Algolia-Recommend

Enables rapid, scalable product discovery with ecommerce recommendations

With Algolia Recommend, developers can rely on our robust APIs to build the recommendations experiences best suited to meet their companies’ needs. Build recommendations carousels quickly that automatically show products or digital content to users, subscribers, and shoppers, while leveraging the power of AI.

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Leverage user behavior and collaborative filtering to drive cross-selling, upselling, and increase average order value.

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Contextualize and merchandize your recommendations.

Blending machine- and human- learning

Analytics

Understand your users, uncover hidden opportunities, and optimize your overall customer experience.

Recommendations simulator

Ensure your algorithm is providing the most accurate recommendations before going live.
Use customer data to optimize user experience.

Filters

A filtering method that allows you to surface the perfect recommendations for your business.

Rules

Give your business users the autonomy to apply their strategies on top of recommendations.

Measurably better for business

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How to surface and customize ecommerce recommendations in 6 lines of code

The most advanced companies already use Algolia Recommend

Decathlon
Gymshark
Orange
Noski Noski
Flaconi
Noski Noski
We knew that Algolia was a really big investment for us but, for us, the quality was the most important thing, and Algolia is the best — one of the best — solutions. So, we adopted it and I really love it.

Piotr Tuszewicki

Co-Founder @ Noski Noski
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Gymshark
We don't have to do very much with Algolia Recommend. With our previous solutions, there was so much manual configuration, and there were an awful lot of times when it required constant upkeep when making changes. With Algolia we don't need to do half of the things we previously did.

Ben Pusey

former Software Product Owner @ Gymshark
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Not only Algolia pay for itself by enabling us to offer visibility to our CPGs, it also makes it easier for us to promote our higher-margin private label brands and include personalized impulse products on checkout.

Felipe Alonso Valverde

Head of ecommerce @ Auto Mercado
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Built for scale and reliability

Build fast

  • Extensive set of APIs with advanced front-end libraries

  • Developer kickstarter with code samples, implementation guides, and docs

  • No-code dashboard and visualization for business users

Optimize continuously

  • End-to-end applications of AI & ML with models trained on billions of data points

  • Real-time engagement data to personalize each experience

  • Business flexibility to fine-tune results

Deploy globally

  • 1.5+ trillion queries powered annually with <20 millisecond response time per query

  • 99.999% availability with 100% API uptime guarantee

Algolia  is fast to results in every industry and use case

Algolia industries

Addressing a wide range of industries

  • B2C ecommerce

  • B2B ecommerce

  • Marketplaces

  • Media

  • SaaS

  • and more...

Algolia use cases

Providing solutions for multiple use cases

  • Mobile and app search

  • Headless ecommerce

  • Voice search

  • Image search

  • Enterprise search

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Algolia Recommend FAQs

  • Really fast. Most recommendation requests will take from 1 to 20 milliseconds to process.

  • Under the hood recommendations rely on supervised machine learning models and the Algolia foundation.

    For both models, the data corresponding to the past 30 days is collected. This results in a matrix where columns are userTokens and rows are objectIDs. Each cell represents the number of interactions (click and/or conversions) between a userToken and an objectID. Then, Algolia Recommend applies a collaborative filtering algorithm: for each item, it finds other items that share similar buying patterns across customers. Items would be considered similar if the same users set interacted with them. Items would be considered bought together if the same set of users bought them.

  • Getting recommendations is a four-step process:

    1. Capture your users’ conversion events
    2. Send your data to Algolia
    3. Train the models with the push of a button
    4. Add recommendations to your UI
  • Our recommendation engine is language-agnostic: it supports alphabet-based and symbol-based languages (such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean).

  • Essentially a recommendation engine will analyse interactions of users with different items to draw links between those items. Deep dive here.

  • An example of a recommendation engine is a product recommendation engine for ecommerce. It will analyse what products shoppers buy together or what products shoppers interact with in a short amount of time, to generate “Frequently Bought Together” or “Related Products” recommendations. Learn more here!

  • The key components of a high-performance recommender system are: Data Sources, Feature Store, Machine Learning Models, Predictions & Actions, Results & Metrics. More details in this dedicated series.

  • The best way to improve a recommendation engine is to make sure you’re feeding it qualitative data: user interactions and items. Additionally there are filters that you can apply to the recommendations that are being generated. Ultimately, key performance indicators must be accurately tracked in order to identify areas of improvement.

  • The most obvious operational goal of using a personalized recommender system is to recommend items that are relevant to the user, as people are more likely to buy items they find attractive. Learn more about personalized recommendations and their benefits here!

  • Content-based recommendations are based solely on items’ descriptions. Personalized recommendations are also based on user’s interactions and each user will see a different set of recommendations, depending on their individual preferences. Learn more here!