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Ranked by measurement

Best web search api

8 tested · top 8 shown

Ordered by a seven-frame production-readiness benchmark measured from each product's public surface — not popularity, pricing or feature count. Nobody pays to appear here and the order is never edited. How it is measured →
How this field scores
low 50median 76best 86
  1. 1
    Exa
    Exa is a web search and crawling API for AI applications and agents.
    Perf 80
    Sec 100
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 75
    Disc 85
    exa.ai · measured 2026-08-08
  2. 2
    Search Stack
    Hosted search API with built-in quality evals and MCP agent support.
    Perf 73
    Sec 60
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 87
    Disc 100
    searchstack.dev · measured 2026-08-10
  3. 3
    You.com
    You.com offers web search, content, and research APIs built for AI applications.
    Perf 40
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 75
    Std 89
    Disc 100
    you.com · measured 2026-08-09
  4. 4
    Liner
    AI search API platform with citations, speed, and cost-efficient pricing.
    Perf 80
    Sec 35
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 75
    Disc 100
    liner.com · measured 2026-08-09
  5. 5
    AnySearch
    AnySearch provides a search API that supplies structured data to AI applications.
    Perf 80
    Sec 100
    Priv 25
    Rel 92
    Std 75
    Disc 85
    anysearch.com · measured 2026-08-09
  6. 6
    XERJ.ai
    XERJ.ai is a self-hosted search engine designed for AI agent workloads.
    Perf 87
    Sec 80
    Priv 25
    Rel 75
    Std 92
    Disc 72
    xerj.org · measured 2026-08-09
  7. 7
    tavily-mcp
    MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily
    Sec 90
    Std 75
    Disc 35
    3 not assessed
    github.com · measured 2026-08-09
  8. 8
    wigolo
    wigolo is a local-first server that gives AI agents web search, fetch, and cache tools.
    Perf 100
    Sec 45
    Priv 25
    Rel 47
    Std 64
    Disc 15
    knockoutez.github.io · measured 2026-08-10
What this does not say
Products whose sites block automated readers are left out rather than ranked last — we did not measure them, and bottom placement would claim something we never observed. Scores are floors: anything set at a CDN, a proxy or behind a login is invisible from the public surface.

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