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Landing Platform vs Boost: faster search, one flat plan
Boost is a Shopify app priced by how much you sell. Landing's site search measured four to five times faster on the same store, turns your own Shopify metafields into filters shoppers can search, and comes with email, a CRM and a helpdesk.
Landing suits you if
- You've outgrown a GMV tier and want a price that stays put
- Your best product data lives in Shopify metafields
- You want search, email and support to see the same shopper
Where the tiers catch up with you.
A good month moves you up a plan.
Priced on your sales
Boost's plans are capped by GMV, so growing your store moves you up a tier.
Your data, unused
The filters shoppers want, like flavour, dietary or material, often live in metafields that search never reads.
A search app, alone
Boost runs search and filters. Email, CRM, support and reporting are still separate subscriptions.
Landing Platform vs Boost AI Search & Filter, line by line.
We measured Boost against Landing on the same live store. Landing answered four to five times faster, and then goes well beyond search.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Boost AI Search & Filter |
|---|---|---|
| Measured speed | A median 174ms per search from cold, and the fastest of four tools we measured, under load as wellScale | 4 to 5× slower than Landing, measured on the same store in September 2026 |
| Metafield filters | Choose any Shopify metafield as a filter, and it becomes searchable too, so "dairy free" finds the products you labelled that wayScale | Metafields supported |
| Site search | Typo tolerance, filters, "did you mean", and phrases like "under £50" understoodScale | Smart and AI-powered search |
| Products tagged from their photos | AI reads colour, material and shape from each product image, so "green linen" finds the dress even when the title doesn't say itScale | AI search |
| Recommendations | Six strategies, from trending and bought together to "looks like this", in named slots, with clicks and revenue reported per slotScale | AI-powered recommendations |
| Merchandising rules | Synonyms, redirects, boost and bury, and pinned products, on a schedule or for one audience: new visitors, returning ones, shoppers with a basket or a named segmentScale | Search merchandising; collection merchandising from Convert |
| Search analytics | Top searches, searches with no results, click-through and the revenue search led to, with the attribution method shown beside the numberScale | Analytics kept 90 to 365 days by plan |
| Email marketing | Campaigns and flows, including abandoned checkout, browse abandonment, and back in stock and price drop for ShopifyCore | Back-in-stock notifications; not an email tool |
| CRM, helpdesk and checkout | Built in, on the same customer record as every search and orderCore | Not its product |
| How you pay | Per Builder and Member, plus contacts after 2,500. Shoppers are free, and your price doesn't rise with your sales | Monthly, by GMV tier |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. Boost AI Search & Filter details reflect its publicly available information as of September 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
Boost prices by GMV, so your tier follows your sales. Landing prices by the people who run the store, whatever you turn over. Site search is in Scale, sold yearly.
Boost AI Search & Filter, as it lists it
Boost's plans as listed on its site, September 2026.
And still to buy separately: email and SMS marketing, a CRM, a helpdesk and web analytics.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes site search with metafield filters, recommendations, merchandising rules, email and SMS flows, CRM, helpdesk, checkout and web analytics.
Work out your own priceExample team: two people who run the store and its marketing every day, four who handle orders and support. Landing prices are in pounds; Boost lists its prices in dollars, so we show both as published rather than converting. Credits for AI, SMS and lookups come from a shared pool each Builder adds to. Scale is sold yearly only.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
Show us your Boost setup, your metafields and the tools around them. We agree what moves where, and what "ready" means for search, before you commit.
We move Boost across
We index your catalogue with the metafields you filter on, carry your synonyms and rules across, and compare your top searches side by side. We check nothing clashes with Boost's search widget before you go live.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But we already use Boost.
Fair. Here are the questions teams ask us most when they're weighing it up.
How was the speed measured?
On the same live Shopify store, in September 2026, asking each a set of different search terms once. Landing answered in a median 174ms from cold; Boost was four to five times slower. Landing was also the fastest of the four tools we measured.
Can we filter on our own Shopify metafields?
Yes. Pick the metafields you want as filters and Landing indexes them. They're searchable as well as filterable, so the words you curated, like "vegan" or "dairy free", find the right products.
Will Landing cost more as our store grows?
Not because of your sales. You pay for Builders and Members, plus your contact list after the first 2,500. A bigger GMV doesn't move your plan.
Do we have to switch everything on day one?
No. Landing takes over your site search first while the rest of your theme carries on as it is. We make sure only one search widget ever fires, and you switch Boost off when you have seen the numbers.
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