Exa
ExaSemantic search API built for models, not for humans.
Verified 10 NovFree
#search#api#semantic
Linkup alternatives
10 tools that overlap with Linkup, compared by what they are built for rather than by a feature count.
Alternatives
Tavily
TavilySearch API shaped for agents: results plus a short synthesised answer.
Verified 10 NovFree
#search#api#agents
Brave Search API
BraveAn independent web index with a straightforward per-query API.
Verified 10 NovFree
#search#api#index
SerpAPI
SerpAPISearch engine results as JSON, without maintaining scrapers.
Verified 10 NovFree
#search#api#serp
Kagi
KagiPaid, ad-free search with an API and no engagement optimisations.
Verified 10 NovPaid
#search#api#paid
Firecrawl
FirecrawlCrawl and convert pages to clean markdown for retrieval.
Verified 10 NovFree
#search#crawling#rag
Glean
GleanEnterprise search and an assistant that answers from your company's own documents.
Verified 9 NovPaid
#enterprise#search#rag
You.com
You.comA search assistant that lets you pick the model behind the answer.
Verified 1 NovFree
#search#research#assistant
Phind
PhindSearch tuned for developers, with code in the answer.
Verified 1 NovFree
#search#developers#debugging
Perplexity
Perplexity AIAn answer engine that cites what it used.
Verified 1 NovFree
#search#research#citations
How to choose
Start from the constraint, not the feature list. If you need a free tier to evaluate, that removes half the list immediately. If you are replacing something you already pay for, compare the entry price rather than the enterprise tier you will never buy.