Bloomreach vs Fast Simon
Bloomreach and Fast Simon are both site search tools. Of the 851 stores we index, Bloomreach is on 30 (4%) and Fast Simon on 6 (1%). No store we index uses both.
Bloomreach and Fast Simon on the stores we index
Show the data
| Only Bloomreach | 30 |
|---|---|
| Only Fast Simon | 6 |
| Both | 0 |
Bloomreach
On 30 of 851 stores (4%)
Bloomreach's Ecommerce Search is a site search product that learns from shopper behaviour. It also offers merchandising controls, product recommendations and long-tail SEO pages. It sits alongside Bloomreach's email, automation and agent products, and shares customer data with them. Pricing is custom, quoted per business.
- Self-learning site search
- Merchandising insights and control
- Product recommendations
- Long-tail SEO pages
- Search that reads shopper intent, not keywords
- Connects to Shopify and other tools
What it costs
Pricing on request
- Smaller brands (starting point, custom quote): $60K a year (Audience, catalog size, products turned on, and usage volume such as messages sent and searches served)
From Bloomreach's own features page and pricing page, checked 1 Nov 2026. Prices change, so check them before you buy.
Fast Simon
On 6 of 851 stores (1%)
We haven't checked Fast Simon's features and prices yet.
Switches
No stores we index have switched between Bloomreach and Fast Simon yet. We record what each store uses at the end of every month, so switches show here as they happen.
By platform
| Platform | Bloomreach | Fast Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | 16 | 6 |
| Salesforce Commerce Cloud | 5 | 0 |
| Adobe Commerce (Magento) | 3 | 0 |
Stores using each, where the two have at least 3 between them.
By industry
| Industry | Bloomreach | Fast Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Fashion and accessories | 9 | 4 |
| Sports and outdoor | 3 | 2 |
| Kids and baby | 4 | 0 |
| Beauty and skincare | 3 | 0 |
| Health and wellness | 3 | 0 |
| Large retailers | 3 | 0 |
Stores using each, where the two have at least 3 between them.
Read more
- The tools bigger stores use: what changes as traffic grows
Bigger sites lean towards enterprise platforms and their tools, so the Shopify-only view is the fairer guide to what a growing Shopify store adds.
- How Shopify stores power their collection pages: native filtering vs search and merchandising apps
Shopify's built-in filtering covers many collection pages. Here is what it does, when stores add a search and merchandising app, and what to compare before you choose.
All the alternatives to Bloomreach
Of the stores we index, not the whole market, and not a ranking of which tool is better. Found in each store’s public pages, so the real numbers may be higher. How we measure