Use cases Search the web
Apps an AI agent can use to search the web
Search APIs built for agents return clean text and sources instead of a page of links. Compare how fresh the results are, whether answers come with citations, and what a query costs.
4 apps, most reported first
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Perplexity
perplexity.ai
Web-grounded answers with citations, and several model providers through one API.
MCP · SDK · API
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Exa
exa.ai
Web search and content extraction built for agents, including research workflows.
MCP · SDK · API
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Tavily
tavily.com
Web search, content extraction, site crawling and research for agents.
MCP · CLI · API
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Firecrawl
firecrawl.dev
Search the web, scrape pages and extract structured data for AI agents.
CLI · API · Skill