
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
Exa (Metaphor Systems) records 0 monthly visits with 0% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. TinyFish records 1,124,952 monthly visits with +199.7% growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing.

The search API that gives AI agents real-time web context
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | exa.ai | tinyfish.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 0 (0) | 1.12M (1,124,952) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | 0 (0%) | +749.57K (+199.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🌐 Global (—) | 🇺🇸 United States (27.4%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 0 | 401.32K |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

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.

One API key for agent-grade web search, fetch, browsing and automation
Real browser-rendered search that returns structured JSON with fresh, uncached results from the live web, with no search fee.
Convert any URL into token-efficient Markdown, JSON or HTML, stripping navigation bars, cookie banners and ads before they reach your model.
Full cloud browser sessions with persistent state that you drive with Playwright, Puppeteer or the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
Give an agent a goal in plain English and it navigates, fills forms and returns structured results; monitoring fires alerts when a tracked page or topic 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

Features a massive marketplace of ready-to-run scrapers, though it operates more as an actor platform than a raw API.
Features a massive marketplace of ready-to-run scrapers, though it operates more as an actor platform than a raw API.
Free / Open-sourceProvides cleaner LLM-ready markdown conversion and crawling, but lacks TinyFish's interactive cloud browser automation capabilities.
Free / Open-sourceProvides cleaner LLM-ready markdown conversion and crawling, but lacks TinyFish's interactive cloud browser automation capabilities.

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Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data

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The managed vector database and knowledge engine for production AI

Excels at converting URLs into clean markdown and embeddings, but lacks dedicated browser actuation and live search endpoints.
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Gives you robust headless browser automation and control, but requires more custom development than managed agent APIs.
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SpecialistProvides independent web search and agent grounding, but lacks content fetching and browser automation features.
SpecialistProvides independent web search and agent grounding, but lacks content fetching and browser automation features.