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Web Search

Score 23.2 / 100 22 providers +16 via APIs 20 APIs Search apis.io →
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Data & Reference Information Services 1

Providers using this tag (22)

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

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
DiffbotExtractionHarvestingWeb ScrapingWeb9 APIs77.8Cracked APIAI AgentsAgent ToolsMCPTool Router1 API73.1ParallelCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents10 APIs69.5
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
OctenSearchArtificial IntelligenceLLM1 API63.1Search1APICompanySearchCrawling1 API59.5ExaArtificial IntelligenceSearchNeural Search7 APIs58.5SerperSearchSERPGoogle SearchArtificial Intelligence2 APIs56.5NimblewayCompanyWeb DataWeb ScrapingData Extraction1 API65.3BrowserbaseBrowser AutomationBrowser InfrastructureAI AgentsWeb Scraping1 API58.5InterfazeCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLM1 API56.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
TavilySearchAI AgentsLLM1 API47.9KeenableAI AgentsAI LabsInference Platforms1 API53.7SeltzCompanyAI InfrastructureRetrieval1 API53.3Google Custom SearchCustom SearchGoogleImage SearchSearch1 API51.1NeuralVerge APICompany DataPeople DataContact EnrichmentEmail Finder1 API50.3Agent ExchangeAgentsAgentic Commercex402MCP3 APIs46.2
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
searchpipe-techMCPAI AgentsSearch1 API39.2LinkupArtificial IntelligenceLLMGrounding2 APIs38.7
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Marginalia SearchOpen SourceSearch1 API25.8digiantnzCompanyA2AAgents1 API20.5
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
BlekkoCompanySearchSearch Engines0.0Microsoft BingSearchImageVideo18 APIs0.0

APIs with this tag (20)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Telnyx Web Search APIReal-time web search returning structured, LLM-ready JSON results.79.4Diffbot Web Search APIThe Web Search API from Diffbot — 1 operation(s) for web search.77.8
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft Web Search APISearch the web for relevant results66.3Perplexity Responses APIThe Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like...65.7Perplexity Search APIThe Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, ...65.7PipesHub Web Search APIManage web search providers (DuckDuckGo, Serper, Tavily, Exa) and settings for internet search.56.5StepFun Web Search APIWeb search and text-to-image search endpoints (POST /v1/search) billed per call as value-added capabilities.56.0Orq.ai Web Search APISearch Gateway with managed credits or BYOK.55.8aisa-one Websearch APIThe websearch API from aisa-one — 2 operation(s) for websearch.55.1
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
replynodes-com Web Search APIThe web_search API from replynodes-com — 1 operation(s) for web_search.52.2BeatAPI Web Search APISearch the web, read pages as Markdown or plain text, list the pages of a site and research a question.49.9desearch-ai Web Search APIThe Web Search API from desearch-ai — 3 operation(s) for web search.48.7DATPAQ Web Search APIWeb search for a single query or a batch of up to 10 queries48.6superagnt-com Web: Search APISearch the web and optionally scrape the results.44.1
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Brave Search API - Web SearchREST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. ...33.9APIs.io Engineering Platform Web Search APIThe Web Search API from APIs.io Engineering Platform — 1 operation(s) for web search.32.0Cernion Web Search APIThe Web Search API from Cernion — 1 operation(s) for web search.30.4You.com Search APIThe You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for AI agents and LLMs, with controls ...27.8
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...20.5
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 (16)

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.

aisa-one APIs.io Engineering Platform BeatAPI Brave Cernion DATPAQ desearch-ai Microsoft Orq.ai Perplexity PipesHub replynodes-com StepFun superagnt-com Telnyx You.com

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
58.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Image Search 6 co-occurrences Video Search 5 co-occurrences Extract 6 co-occurrences Web Scraping 9 co-occurrences Monitors 5 co-occurrences Chat Completions 6 co-occurrences Embeddings 5 co-occurrences Data Enrichment 5 co-occurrences

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