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Web Search

Score 22.1 / 100 19 providers +6 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (19)

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

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
DiffbotExtractionHarvestingScrapingWeb9 APIs75.4Cracked APIAI AgentsAgent ToolsMCPTool Router2 APIs70.3ParallelCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents2 APIs66.6
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Parallel Web SystemsCompanyAi MlDeep Research2 APIs62.8ExaArtificial IntelligenceSearchNeural Search7 APIs58.5SerperSearchSERPGoogle SearchArtificial Intelligence2 APIs56.3NimblewayCompanyWeb DataWeb ScrapingData Extraction1 API55.7BrowserbaseHeadless BrowserBrowser InfrastructureWeb AutomationAI Agents1 API55.2
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Agent ExchangeAgentsAgentic Commercex402MCP5 APIs47.5Google Custom SearchCustom SearchGoogleImage SearchSearch1 API47.0NeuralVerge APICompany DataPeople DataContact EnrichmentEmail Finder1 API46.4InterfazeCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLM1 API46.1TavilySearchAI AgentsLLM1 API45.5SeltzCompanyAI InfrastructureRetrieval1 API42.6
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
LinkupArtificial IntelligenceLLMGrounding1 API37.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Marginalia SearchOpen SourceSearch1 API25.6digiantnzCompanyA2AAgents1 API20.7
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
BlekkoCompanySearchSearch Engines0.0Microsoft BingSearchImageVideo18 APIs0.0

APIs with this tag (12)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Diffbot Web Search APIThe Web Search API from Diffbot — 1 operation(s) for web search.75.4
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft Web Search APISearch the web for relevant results60.6Perplexity Responses APIThe Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like...57.0Perplexity Search APIThe Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, ...57.0
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Gemini Deep Research APIAgentic research capability powered by the Interactions API that autonomously plans, executes, and synthesi...50.1StepFun Web Search APIWeb search and text-to-image search endpoints (POST /v1/search) billed per call as value-added capabilities.47.9Agent Exchange API StoreThe pay-per-call data API for AI agents at https://store.agentexchange.work: an OpenAPI 3.1.0 document (inf...47.5NeuralVerge REST APIREST API for AI Research, AI Extract, AI Agents, Search, and Data Sources. Bearer token auth (Authorization...46.4
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Brave Search API - Web SearchREST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. ...32.9
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
You.com Search APIThe You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for AI agents and LLMs, with controls ...25.9a2a-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...20.7
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 (6)

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.

Brave Gemini Microsoft Perplexity StepFun You.com

Score breakdown

Frequency
41.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
55.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Image Search 5 co-occurrences Web Scraping 5 co-occurrences LLM 10 co-occurrences Search 17 co-occurrences Image 6 co-occurrences A2A 8 co-occurrences Research 6 co-occurrences Video 5 co-occurrences

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