LangSearch: Provides dedicated web search and rerank endpoints for LLM apps, but lacks broad multi-model inference routing. LangSearch records 1,996 monthly visits with +10.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. You.com records 948,349 monthly visits with +7% growth and Freemium pricing.
Free web search API for LLM agents, RAG pipelines and AI chatbots
Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | langsearch.com | you.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 2K (1,996) | 948.35K (948,349) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +190 (+10.5%) | +61.92K (+7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇮🇳 India (100%) | 🇺🇸 United States (24.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 786 | 639.15K |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Free web search API for LLM agents, RAG pipelines and AI chatbots
Issue search queries and receive titles, source links and snippets with no per-request charges on the free plan.
Request full page content instead of snippets and cap it per result with a max_characters setting.
Call the same search engine from an HTTP API, an MCP endpoint for agents, or a skill for coding assistants.
Restrict results with includeDomains and excludeDomains, plus freshness presets, single dates or inclusive date ranges.
Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
Ranked web and news results returned in around 0.4 seconds at p50, with highlights, knowledge, extraction and domain filters for production RAG workloads.
Submit URLs you already have and get back clean Markdown or HTML per page, priced per page returned rather than per request.
Answer returns a cited response in one call, while Research plans, reads full pages and cross-references sources across five depth tiers.
One OpenAI-compatible chat completions API that runs leading open-weight models with automatic multi-provider failover.
Enterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
Enterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
SpecialistExceptional consumer answer engine with verified citations, but less flexible raw developer API data feeds.
SpecialistExceptional consumer answer engine with verified citations, but less flexible raw developer API data feeds.
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Includes cloud browser automation and live fetching for web agents, but less optimized for traditional textual search queries.
Neural web search API specifically engineered for LLM agents, but offers less consumer chatbot interface polish.
Bundles deep research crawling and search into a developer API, but lacks generalized multi-model inference endpoints.
Bundles deep research crawling and search into a developer API, but lacks generalized multi-model inference endpoints.
SpecialistPowerful enterprise neural search and discovery platform, but focuses more on internal site search than live web retrieval.
SpecialistPowerful enterprise neural search and discovery platform, but focuses more on internal site search than live web retrieval.
SpecialistThe managed vector database and knowledge engine for production AI
Provides specialized URL-to-Markdown reading and neural rerankers, but less comprehensive out-of-the-box real-time web search.
Provides specialized URL-to-Markdown reading and neural rerankers, but less comprehensive out-of-the-box real-time web search.
SpecialistOne universal API for 500+ AI models and 1,000+ agentic tools
Powered by the independent Ahrefs index for clean search results, but smaller overall ecosystem integration for AI agents.
Powered by the independent Ahrefs index for clean search results, but smaller overall ecosystem integration for AI agents.
Free / Open-sourceLightning-fast search engine you can self-host or run in the cloud
Free / Open-sourceLightning-fast search engine you can self-host or run in the cloud
