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Web Search

Score 21.3 / 100 20 providers +8 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (20)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
OctenSearchArtificial IntelligenceLLM2 APIs71.5Search1APICompanySearchCrawling2 APIs71.0DiffbotExtractionHarvestingWeb ScrapingWeb11 APIs73.8ParallelCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents11 APIs73.6Cracked APIAI AgentsAgent ToolsMCPTool Router2 APIs69.9
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
SerperSearchSERPGoogle SearchArtificial Intelligence2 APIs54.8NimblewayCompanyWeb DataWeb ScrapingData Extraction1 API55.7
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ExaArtificial IntelligenceSearchNeural Search8 APIs52.3TavilySearchAI AgentsLLM1 API39.5InterfazeCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLM2 APIs52.1BrowserbaseHeadless BrowserBrowser InfrastructureWeb AutomationAI Agents1 API49.7SeltzCompanyAI InfrastructureRetrieval1 API49.0Agent ExchangeAgentsAgentic Commercex402MCP6 APIs48.2NeuralVerge APICompany DataPeople DataContact EnrichmentEmail Finder1 API47.1Google Custom SearchCustom SearchGoogleImage SearchSearch1 API45.5
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
LinkupArtificial IntelligenceLLMGrounding1 API37.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Marginalia SearchOpen SourceSearch1 API24.1digiantnzCompanyA2AAgents1 API20.8
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
BlekkoCompanySearchSearch Engines0.0Microsoft BingSearchImageVideo18 APIs0.0

APIs with this tag (12)

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Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Telnyx Web Search APIReal-time web search returning structured, LLM-ready JSON results.86.1Diffbot Web Search APIThe Web Search API from Diffbot — 1 operation(s) for web search.73.8PipesHub Web Search APIManage web search providers (DuckDuckGo, Serper, Tavily, Exa) and settings for internet search.72.0Microsoft Web Search APISearch the web for relevant results67.7
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Perplexity Responses APIThe Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like...60.8Perplexity Search APIThe Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, ...60.8StepFun Web Search APIWeb search and text-to-image search endpoints (POST /v1/search) billed per call as value-added capabilities.54.4
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
APIs.io Engineering Platform Web Search APIThe Web Search API from APIs.io Engineering Platform — 1 operation(s) for web search.32.3Brave Search API - Web SearchREST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. ...30.3You.com Search APIThe You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for AI agents and LLMs, with controls ...26.4
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
a2a-browser A2A AgentPay-per-search web agent (version 0.1.0-alpha) served from a2a-browser.digiant.nz: a JSON-RPC 2.0 POST endp...20.8
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Microsoft Bing Web Search APIThe Web Search API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for web search.0.0

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Web Search” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

APIs.io Engineering Platform Brave Microsoft Perplexity PipesHub StepFun Telnyx You.com

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Image Search 6 co-occurrences Video Search 5 co-occurrences Web Scraping 8 co-occurrences Chat Completions 5 co-occurrences LLM 11 co-occurrences News 5 co-occurrences Search 21 co-occurrences Image 7 co-occurrences

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