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Search APIs for AI agents

10 web search APIs used to ground AI agents and apps. APIs that return web search results or page content for AI agents and RAG apps. Compare index source, freshness, result format and per-query pricing.

How to read this page. The tools are grouped by category and are not ranked. Pricing labels come from vendors' own pages when we could confirm them. Always verify plans and limits on the vendor's site.

Chatbots & Assistants (1)

ToolWhat it doesPricingLink
You.comAI assistant and search engine that answers questions with cited web sources.FreemiumOfficial site

Browser Agents (3)

ToolWhat it doesPricingLink
ParallelWeb research infrastructure and APIs that give AI agents access to fresh web data.See siteOfficial site
SerpApiAPI for scraping Google and other search engine results in structured JSON.Official site
SerperFast Google Search API for agents and apps.See siteOfficial site

LLM APIs & Model Providers (1)

ToolWhat it doesPricingLink
Perplexity APIPerplexity's API for search-grounded answers.See siteOfficial site

AI Developer Tools (1)

ToolWhat it doesPricingLink
Jina AIEmbeddings, reranker and web reader models and APIs for search.See siteOfficial site

Research & Search (4)

ToolWhat it doesPricingLink
Brave Search APIWeb search API from Brave, with AI grounding options.See siteOfficial site
ExaSearch engine and API built for AI applications.See siteOfficial site
LinkupWeb search API designed for grounding AI agents on live results.FreemiumOfficial site
TavilySearch API designed for AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation.See siteOfficial site

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