41 APIs · updated Oct 2026
Every search API on earth.
Bing is dead. Google rations theirs. A wave of startups wants to feed your agent the web. Here's who they all are and what they actually return.
- Live
- 40
- Own index
- 13
- Full content
- 11
- Answers
- 18
TL;DR
No time? These are our picks.
Keirolabs: $0.10 per 1,000 lite calls with 93% reported on SimpleQA. Parallel: $1 per 1,000 on its fast tier.
Returns ranked, compressed excerpts instead of whole pages, so your model reads less.
Speed and accuracy figures are reported by the vendors themselves. See every SimpleQA claim and whether it can be checked.
Which one should you buy?
Three questions. Your shortlist updates as you answer.
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Scored from the directory's data. Treat it as a starting point, then run your own bake-off.
Independent index
They crawl the web themselves. No Google or Bing underneath, so nobody upstream can pull the plug.
AI-native
Built for agents. They fetch the pages, strip the junk and hand your model clean text, sometimes an answer.
SERP scraper
Google's results page, parsed into JSON. Cheap and familiar, and the scraping is the vendor's problem.
Big tech
Search as a built-in tool for one company's models. One line to turn on, hard to take with you.
Same question, four APIs
One query.
Four different answers.
One gives you links. One gives you the pages. One writes the answer. One hands you Google's results page as JSON. Picking a search API is mostly picking which of these you want.
curl -G https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search \
--data-urlencode "q=latest rust release" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_KEY"curl https://api.exa.ai/search \
-H "x-api-key: $EXA_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "latest rust release", "contents": {"text": true}}'curl https://api.tavily.com/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TAVILY_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "latest rust release", "include_answer": true}'curl https://google.serper.dev/search \
-H "X-API-KEY: $SERPER_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"q": "latest rust release"}'The directory
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