Swiftype
A powerful search experience for your website—without the learning curve.
Swiftype is a cloud-based hosted search platform for websites, applications, and enterprise environments. It addresses the need to make large or complex content sets findable through a customizable search experience, using a crawler to index web content and a JSON API for programmatic ingestion and querying. The platform also supports an AI-powered Enterprise Search approach for indexing content across disparate cloud data sources.
Core capabilities include autocomplete, faceted search refinements, spelling correction, stemming, synonyms, phrase and bigram matching, and language-specific relevance models with multilingual support. Content ingestion is handled through a maintenance-free crawler with scheduled or real-time syncing, custom schemas, metatagging, custom extraction, and PDF/office document indexing, alongside a JSON API for real-time updates and authenticated experiences. Search controls include drag-and-drop result rankings, attribute weighting, and per-query relevance tuning, while Swiftype Analytics provides search and click data with an Analytics API and Clickthrough API. Developer tools, documentation, and APIs support embedding search into custom interfaces. Security features include SOC 2 compliance, encryption in transit and at rest, SAML-based SSO, granular permissions, and IP whitelisting.
Swiftype is aimed at online stores, publications, blogs, knowledge bases, customer support teams, and enterprises. It is packaged as a free 14-day trial without a credit card, with Standard and Pro editions based on crawl frequency and feature access, and a custom-priced Premium edition for mission-critical search with enterprise SLA, dedicated hardware, and implementation support. Additional documents, queries, engines, and domains are subject to volume-based pricing.
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