Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
#1Exa records 1,062,574 monthly visits with +16.8% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Hex records 782,737 monthly visits with +10.8% growth and Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing, Free pricing.

An agentic analytics platform that turns questions into governed, trusted answers
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| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (45.6%) | 🇺🇸 United States (64.1%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 602.54K | 621.75K |
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| User Rating | 4.5 | 4.7 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
Run natural-language or keyword queries against a large independent web index with filters for domain, date and category.
Return cleaned page text and AI-extracted highlights so agents receive the most relevant excerpts instead of entire pages.
Choose fast, balanced or deep search modes so an assistant can answer instantly or run longer grounded research.
Extract structured outputs such as company details, people and other entities for list building and data pipelines.

An agentic analytics platform that turns questions into governed, trusted answers
Ask a question in plain language and get a reasoned answer with the SQL, charts and tables behind it, available in the Hex workspace, in Slack and from developer tools.
Write SQL, Python and R side by side in one project, then turn cells into interactive, parameterised data apps and dashboards without a separate BI authoring tool.
Centralise metrics, semantics and corporate definitions so answers stay consistent, and see exactly where the agent lacked grounding so you can fix it.
Run graded, rubric-based test suites against the agent to measure answer quality and catch regressions as your data and context evolve.
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
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SpecialistOne API key for agent-grade web search, fetch, browsing and automation
#2The real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research
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Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data

SpecialistWeb data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
SpecialistAI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce
Faster for ad hoc statistical analysis and data visualization from natural language, but lacks Hex's robust notebook workflows.

SpecialistSearch foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs

SpecialistReal-time B2B people and company data for AI agents
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors

SpecialistOffers a spreadsheet-based interface with live data and Python execution, but lacks Hex's structured data app builder.

Simpler plain-English querying and dashboard generation for databases, but lacks Hex's advanced polyglot notebook environment.
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
SpecialistWeb data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Faster for ad hoc statistical analysis and data visualization from natural language, but lacks Hex's robust notebook workflows.
SpecialistSearch foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors
SpecialistOffers a spreadsheet-based interface with live data and Python execution, but lacks Hex's structured data app builder.
Simpler plain-English querying and dashboard generation for databases, but lacks Hex's advanced polyglot notebook environment.