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Re:Web Search API by 8bite on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:44AM (#49964828)
The pricing is so different between these:

ceramic.ai - $0.25 per 1,000 requests

Exa - $7.00 per 1,000 requests

Linkup - $5.00 per 1,000 requests

Does anyone have insights on the quality differences? Web search API pricing for AI agent usecases has always felt so expensive for what it is, but I have no grounding on the economics of running a web index.

EDIT: formatting

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Re:Web Search API by nreece on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:01AM (#49965029)
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
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Re:Web Search API by sejje on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:46AM (#49966413)
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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Re:Web Search API by stefs on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:00AM (#49965020)
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.
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