Case Study: Balinea achieves 100X faster search and real-time bookings with Algolia

Leverages Algolia to support over 70 million search queries a month

Balinea is France’s leading online marketplace for booking wellness and beauty treatments, serving major cities in France and Belgium with some 3,500 partner salons and handling ~70 million search queries per month. The small engineering team needed fast, real‑time search and stronger geo-relevance for a constantly changing inventory, but their open‑source solution was slow to maintain and delivered ~10 s response times.

After a two‑week MVP trial with Algolia and a full rollout, Balinea’s search became ~100× faster (most results now under 10 ms vs 10 s previously) and instantly relevant across locations. The faster, scalable search increased customer conversions (from ~20–25% historically to an average ~45%), reduced infrastructure overhead, and freed the team to focus on product and growth.

Balinea

Jeremy Laplanche

CTO