
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. Exa (Metaphor Systems) records 0 monthly visits with 0% growth and Freemium pricing.

The search API that gives AI agents real-time web context
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | exa.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | 0 (0%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 0 |
| 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.

The search API that gives AI agents real-time web context
Low-latency search endpoints (Lite, Auto, Deep) return ranked pages, highlights and structured fields from an independent index covering a large share of the public web.
Retrieve full page text or token-efficient highlights with configurable crawl policies, so models get only the most relevant excerpts rather than whole documents.
Run asynchronous agent runs that navigate, reason and return structured outputs with grounded citations across 70M+ companies and other verticals.
Schedule recurring queries over news, people, companies and financials, and receive updates through webhooks when something changes.

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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