I recently tried a bunch of web search APIs. Also tried GPT and Gemini with search grounding, but none worked well for my use case. You can see some good comparisons and benchmarks at https://mattcollins.net/web-search-apis-for-llms and https://openbenchmarks.com

i looked up what alternatives there'd be and openrouter also makes its search API available. it's exa too, but $4 per 1000 results.

https://serper.dev/ is $1 per 1,000

They have 2,500 free which I used, it seemed good.

I'm unaffiliated--actually a clanker told me about it so I told it "go ahead"

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