Sledge vs Klevu: enterprise discovery, or discovery that fits your size?

How do Klevu and Sledge compare at a glance?

Data as of June 2026, and Sledge's rating as of October 2026. Klevu's 4.9 rating, enterprise depth, and Markets compatibility are real signals.

Should you pick Klevu or Sledge?

Deep dive 1 · Enterprise pricing vs a flat plan

What does the full stack actually cost?

Klevu prices by module, sold direct: Site Search, Recommendations, and Category Merch are each their own line. Together, a full discovery stack adds up. That buys a platform built for scale.

Sledge charges one flat plan: $29.99, $89.99, $199, or $399 a month, by the revenue boost a tier covers, and its reporting cadence. No modules to assemble, no charge per search. Your bill is never a cut of your sales.

So the real question is not feature for feature. It is what discovery costs the month it goes live: a multi-module quote, or $29.99.

Deep dive 2 · Dedicated depth vs the loop

A discovery platform, or discovery inside a connected store?

Klevu spends everything on discovery and goes deep: AI search with typo tolerance and synonyms, a smart merchandising dashboard, faceted filtering, category-page merchandising, personalized recommendations. At enterprise scale, that depth is the draw.

Sledge treats discovery as one part of a connected store. A shopper searches, narrows with filters, lands on a merchandised collection, and meets a bundle and a review on the way to checkout, all on one plan.

Notice the trade. Klevu prices each piece as its own module and, as of June 2026, carries no bundles, no reviews, and no wishlist. Sledge adds the bundles, reviews, and wishlist that turn a found product into a sale. Klevu's depth wins at enterprise scale. For selling across the store, the connections matter more.

Deep dive 3 · Descriptive vs prescriptive

Which tool tells you what to do next?

Klevu's merchandising dashboard reports on discovery: what shoppers searched, what they clicked, how collections performed. The reading and the acting stay with you.

Growth Intelligence names the move. It reads your store's orders, searches, and shopper behavior, finds where money leaks, and hands you the fix. Its fixes sum to one “Est. potential” dollar total: the sales they could add each month. Click a fix and its settings open pre-filled, ready to review and save. Every fix you set up is checked against the two weeks of sales before it, so you see what's working. It runs on Pro and up, weekly to start and daily from Accelerate.

Klevu gives you a dashboard. Growth Intelligence gives you the next move.

Migration note

Switching from Klevu to Sledge: what's involved?

Discovery is the engine of a storefront, so move it deliberately.

1. Install Sledge free; Klevu keeps running. Stand up Sledge search and filters on a staging theme or a quiet collection, and compare result quality against Klevu on your own catalog. The trial runs keyword search; AI search comes with a paid plan.
2. Bring merchandising over once search clears your bar. Sledge covers pin, boost, demote, bury, hide, by hand or by rule, with preview before publish, so you rebuild key collections without breaking a live one.
3. Weigh the depth you would leave behind. If you rely on Klevu's deepest tuning at high request volumes, test Sledge against your real traffic first.

At enterprise scale, staying on Klevu is reasonable. If you want strong AI search, filters, and merchandising plus bundles, reviews, and a wishlist without the price tag, Sledge covers that from $29.99 a month. Either way, Sledge never edits your theme files.