Posts tagged with #algolia from the Contra Collective team.
Algolia vs Typesense vs Meilisearch for Shopify Plus headless search at 100K plus SKU scale. Total cost of ownership, operational burden, indexing pipeline complexity, and the procurement decision for enterprise commerce in 2026.
For enterprise brands running NetSuite as the product master and Shopify Plus as the storefront, search infrastructure is the layer that sits between the two and absorbs the architectural complexity. NetSuite owns SKUs, pricing rules, inventory positions across locations, and merchandising attributes. Shopify Plus owns the storefront, the cart, and the post purchase flow. Search needs to reflect what's in NetSuite within minutes, expose it to the storefront in milliseconds, and support AI driven discovery on top.
Sanity has won the headless CMS slot for serious commerce front-ends. The structured content model, the GROQ query language, and the Studio editing experience map well to product-heavy storefronts running on Shopify Hydrogen, Next.js Commerce, or Remix. What Sanity does not ship is search. Once your storefront grows past a few hundred SKUs, the search infrastructure decision becomes the next architecture choice that shapes how the storefront scales.