What is Swiftype?
Swiftype is a search product from Elasticsearch, B.V. (Elastic). The company says it was founded in 2012 by Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie and is headquartered in San Francisco. Its hosted Site Search product reached the market in 2013, and an AI-powered Enterprise Search platform followed in 2017.
Site Search lets a team add search to a website with a crawler that indexes the pages, a search engine, analytics and a dashboard. The documentation describes the crawler, the dashboard, API clients for several programming platforms, and community forums. Swiftype states that it is SOC 2 compliant.
Plans on the public pricing page are Standard (from $79, crawled weekly, for simple websites), Pro ($199, crawled twice daily, with cross-domain search, PDF and document indexing and advanced crawler settings) and a custom-priced Premium plan with an enterprise SLA, dedicated hardware and an account manager. A free 14-day trial is offered with no credit card required.
Key capabilities
- A web crawler that indexes site content, crawled weekly on Standard and twice daily on Pro.
- Core search features, search analytics and multilingual support on every public plan.
- Cross-domain search and PDF or document indexing on Pro.
- API clients for several programming platforms.
- A Premium plan with an enterprise-level SLA, enterprise-level security and dedicated hardware.
Where Swiftype fits
- Hosted site search with a crawler and dashboard.
- Search analytics.
- Multilingual support.
- Cross-domain search and document indexing.
- API clients for several programming platforms.
- Enterprise Search platform for indexing content across cloud data sources.
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