Ceramic.ai is $0.25/1000 searches. I've been using it as an MCP in OpenCode and it seems adequate. I don't see many people talk about it, and I have not benchmarked it against Exa/Tavilly.
replyceramic is very very bad, the worst search provider of all. it feels like it is doing only lexical matching and the index is very outdated
replyThey explicitly are only doing lexical matching. I actually don’t mind this if it lowers the cost; LLMs can turn lexical search into a very powerful tool by iterating on the queries. Just look at the success of coding agents using grep and similar code search tools.
replyBut it does seem like their index isn’t great.
Kagi MCP works really well imo also within DeepSeek Harness. Just looking at cost neglects the possible difference in quality. How good is that DeepSeek web search/fetch?
reply$4 with Exa, $1.50 with SERP API
replySerpAPI is comically good at evading Google's scraping protections. If what you want to know is, precisely, what someone searching Google in Pakistan would see, this is the API for you.
replyMojeek is £ 2 per thousand. They have their own index (not a SERP), but subjectively pretty close to Google (I prefer it to Bing/DDG).
reply$1 for LinkUp fetch, $5 for LinkUp search.
replyis the cost of search and scrape provider is impact the quality too? for the search is yes, because there it shows the quality and depth of the search. but for scrape, wht the cons?
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