Exa: Web search and crawling API engineered specifically for AI agents and LLM application integration. Exa records 1,062,574 monthly visits with +16.8% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Thor Data records 181,966 monthly visits with -3.5% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | exa.ai | thordata.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 1.06M (1,062,574) | 181.97K (181,966) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +152.79K (+16.8%) | -6.55K (-3.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (45.6%) | 🇵🇱 Poland (8.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 602.54K | 70.44K |
| User Rating | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
Access 100M+ rotating real-user IPs across 190+ countries at from $0.65/GB, with rotation and sticky sessions.
Use real 4G/5G mobile IPs for mobile-specific and hard-to-access targets with carrier-level diversity.
Pull accurate, real-time results from Google, Bing, and more, starting from $0.70 per 1,000 responses.
Deploy 120+ prebuilt scrapers, a stealth Scraping Browser, and web unblocking to collect data at scale.
Extensive cloud platform hosting pre-built scrapers, crawlers, and automation actors for data extraction.
Extensive cloud platform hosting pre-built scrapers, crawlers, and automation actors for data extraction.
Free / Open-sourceDeveloper-first scraping API that crawls and converts websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or JSON.
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Hosted web scraping API delivering reliable proxies, browser rendering, and dedicated data extraction endpoints.
Hosted web scraping API delivering reliable proxies, browser rendering, and dedicated data extraction endpoints.
