Trieve vs. Algolia in 5 Minutes

Features Only Offered by Trieve and Not Algolia#

These are features Trieve offers which Algolia does not.

• Managed topic and message completions API endpoints for RAG with arbitrary LLM’s
• Dense vector semantic search with OpenAI, Anthropic, BGE, Jina, or other model vendors
• Cross-encoder re-ranking with bge-reranker-large or other re-ranker models
• Sparse vector semantic search with SPLADE
• SPLADE reranked by dense vectors, dense vectors re-ranked by SPLADE, or any other combination
• Source-Available under BSL
• REST API

Features Only Offered by Algolia and Not Trieve#

Features offered by Algolia not offered by Trieve.

• Built-in A/B testing
• Distributed search networks to have servers with the search index in multiple regions
• Adjustable language params including prefix parameters, tokenization split characters, and custom word segmentation
• Neural hashing search
• Website crawler for search index management

Good reasons to choose Trieve or Algolia over a database solution#

These are features both Algolia and Trieve have which database-based solutions like Typsesense, Meilisearch, elasticsearch, and OpenSearch do not without plugins or complex configurations.

• Merchandising Studio/Playground to adjust and tune your search
• Built-in-analytics with API routes for passing data like clicks or add-to-cart’s
• Query aggregation analytics for colllapsing queries to avoid search-as-you-type clutter
• SaaS style usage pattern where you don’t have to think about database management
• Guaranteed low latency (sub-100ms) search in any configuration

Pricing Differences between Trieve and Algolia#

• Algolia charges per query and Trieve does not; we only charge for API rate limits and data stored
• Trieve’s merchandising studio comes with every plan; Algolia only provides access to it on their yearly subscriptions
• Trieve’s AI features come with every plan; Algolia only provides access on their highest tier yearly subscription