
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Meilisearch records 119,713 monthly visits with -21.5% growth and Free Trial, Contact for Pricing pricing.

Lightning-fast search engine you can self-host or run in the cloud
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | meilisearch.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 119.71K (119,713) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -32.75K (-21.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (8.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 41.71K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Over one hundred thousand ready-to-run scrapers and automation tools covering social media, maps, e-commerce, real estate, and general web crawling.
Connect Apify Actors directly to AI assistants and agents so they can search the store, run scrapers, and pull structured results as tool calls.
Managed proxy rotation and unblocking are built into the platform, so scrapers keep working when target sites add defenses.
An open-source crawling library plus Python and JavaScript SDKs for building custom Actors with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Cheerio.

Lightning-fast search engine you can self-host or run in the cloud
Results return in under 50 milliseconds with sensible defaults, so it works on first deploy without a tuning project.
Combine keyword relevance with vector-based semantic understanding in a single unified retrieval layer.
Build complex search UIs with a mature toolkit for filters, facets, custom ranking rules and location-aware results.
Store and retrieve embeddings for similarity search, automated embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation workloads.

A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
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Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams

Ultra-fast AI inference on the LPU and LPX platform
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
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Web search API and crawler built for AI agents

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