NitroSearch vs Luigi’s Box
Luigi’s Box is a well-regarded European search and product-discovery suite. Its pricing runs on “units” — indexed catalogue items, search and autocomplete requests, recommender calls and pageviews all consume them — starting around €79/month for 25,000 units, with most packages quoted per site. NitroSearch takes the opposite path: one flat, self-serve price per catalogue size, with searches never metered.
Pricing Model
Luigi’s Box units meter your traffic — searches, autocomplete and pageviews all count, and bigger months mean bigger packages. NitroSearch charges for catalogue size only.
Time To Live
Their WooCommerce integration is API-based and set up by their team — typically days to two weeks. The NitroSearch plugin is self-serve and live in minutes, free up to 100 search results.
Hosting & Privacy
Both are genuinely European. NitroSearch adds a cookieless-by-design widget and analytics posture — your search tool never becomes a consent-banner problem.
Feature By Feature
Our side is labelled just as plainly: what’s live, what our engine powers ahead of its UI, and what’s still roadmap.
| Capability | NitroSearch | Luigi’s Box |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model |
Flat monthly price by catalogue size
|
Unit-metered (items + searches + pageviews); from €79/mo for 25,000 units, then quote-based
|
| Per-search fees |
No.
Never
|
Yes.
Searches, autocomplete and pageviews all consume billed units
|
| Free tier |
Yes.
Up to 100 search results, no card
|
Partly.
Shopify-only free plan (≤5,000 units/mo); elsewhere a 30-day trial — their FAQ: “no free plan”
|
| Instant, typo-tolerant search |
Yes.
|
Yes.
|
| Filters & facets |
Yes.
|
Yes.
|
| Pages & blog posts in search |
Yes.
Alongside products; they share your one allowance, and each type can be switched off
|
Yes.
“article” is a first-class indexed type; indexed articles consume units like anything else
|
| Synonyms |
Engine-powered
|
Yes.
|
| Semantic / AI search |
Engine-powered
|
Yes.
|
| Product recommendations |
No.
Search is the product — we don’t sell a recommender
|
Yes.
A separate unit-consuming service
|
| Search analytics |
Yes.
Included on every paid plan
|
Yes.
|
| A/B testing & merchandising suite |
Roadmap
Curation is engine-powered; A/B testing on the roadmap
|
Partly.
Gated to Custom-integration packages
|
| WooCommerce integration |
Yes.
First-party plugin, self-serve, live in minutes
|
Partly.
API-based; their team performs the connection — days to two weeks
|
| EU data residency |
Yes.
EU-hosted end to end, on every plan
|
Yes.
EU company; DPA commits to EU/EEA processing
|
| Self-serve start (no sales contact) |
Yes.
|
Partly.
Trial is self-serve; buying is quote-led except the Shopify metered app
|
| Every search feature on every plan |
Yes.
Search itself is never tiered; analytics is the one paid-plan extra
|
No.
Services and features vary by package tier
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Luigi’s Box facts from their public pages, last checked 26 July 2026. Providers change pricing and packaging often — always confirm current terms before deciding.
What Growth Does To The Bill
Their bill moves with your traffic. Ours does not — so the gap widens exactly when your store starts winning.
Volumes are illustrative — vary them however you like. Their line moves. Ours does not.
Units also count autocomplete and pageviews, so real consumption runs higher than this floor.
One flat plan vs a unit meter that grows with every search, suggestion and visit.
What We Don’t Do — On Purpose
A comparison is worth more when it tells you where the edges are. Ours:
- Search is the product. We do not sell a recommender, and we will not put one on a slide to win a comparison.
- Self-serve, not account-managed. No integration team to book — the plugin is live in minutes, free up to 100 search results.
- Flat and published. No units to forecast, no per-site quote to negotiate.
For everyone else — especially WooCommerce stores that want fast, honest, flat-priced search — that’s exactly what we built.
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