Why go with ReactiveSearch.io vs Elastic App Search?
From industry leading developer tools to our transparent approach to search relevancy to state of the art analytics and insights - ReactiveSearch.io offers the best app search experience for Elasticsearch users. Trusted by 10,000+ developers.

ReactiveSearch.io provides a developer first experience to building search
Visually configure search
Controls to create a multi-language, typo tolerant, relevant search experience. Merchandise, add synonyms, create query rules, show popular suggestions and more.
Elastic App Search's relevance API only exposes a small set of Elasticsearch relevance features.
ReactiveSearch.io benefits from over 20+ years of work done on relevance by Lucene and Elasticsearch - industry-leading search systems.
ReactiveSearch.io implements its relevance strategies transparently on top of Elasticsearch. This lets a user have complete control over customizing them.

Ease of development
All the ReactiveSearch.io toolings: ReactiveSearch UI kit, REST APIs, visual search tester, enable you to deploy search experiences in days v/s months.
Customize search result pages and cards in just a few clicks and build Recommendation widgets using NoCode tools. Preview changes before going live.
Create seamless search and navigation for all CMS platforms like Shopify, Magento, WordPress, BigCommerce, and even Custom Sites.
Actionable Analytics
Measure the business impact of search with popular search terms, CTRs, conversions, and more. Use insights to optimize the ROI of search.
Visualize the top searches your users are making, and understand how they are performing by diving into search and click analytics. Reduce content gaps by understanding the no results searches.
Learn about the most popular facets and values your users are using to filter their search, and see how they are performing.
Build secure search experiences
Build secure search experiences with fine-grained access policies using API credentials, user management and Role Based Acces Control (RBAC).
Create multiple keys, each with specific intent. Set ACLs, restrict by HTTP Referers and IP sources, set rate limits. Rotate credentials programmatically.
Hide sensitive and irrelevant data from appearing in search results to enhance security and performance.
Deploy your way
ReactiveSearch.io provides deployment flexibility: you can choose to host with our cloud, or self-host alongside your infrastructure. ReactiveSearch.io is built on top of Elasticsearch - the most popular engine, which is also open-source.
As a cloud service
Host ReactiveSearch.io with GCP or AWS in 16 global regions.

Bring Your Elasticsearch
Run ReactiveSearch.io alongside your existing Elasticsearch Cluster.

Self Host
Run ReactiveSearch.io on your cloud or on-premise infrastructure.

No indexing and exporting constraints
Available in 16+ global regions, ReactiveSearch.io does not limit the max record size for any plan and removes the hassle of modeling workarounds for your use-case.
ReactiveSearch.io doesn't impose a record size limit. This lets you model data as per your use-case.
ReactiveSearch.io pricing plans are based on storage in GBs and not by total records. At scale, you can save up to 10x with ReactiveSearch.io.
Export data from multiple data sources.
Elasticsearch all the way
100% Elasticsearch API compatibility. Install Kibana, custom analyzers and work with tools from the entire ecosystem. Elastic App Search requires a proprietary Elasticsearch license and isn't wire compatible with Elasticsearch.
ReactiveSearch.io can be deployed with either open-source or licensed Elasticsearch. It also works with Open Distro.
ReactiveSearch.io is wire compatible with Elasticsearch APIs. You can install additional plugins, clients, and it will just work.

Get support on all plans
Get expert help on ReactiveSearch.io’s service and open-source tools, straight from our team.
ReactiveSearch.io offers chat based support for customers on all plans.
ReactiveSearch.io's dedicated support with SLAs is available as an addon and is accessible to startups, SMBs as well as enterprises.