Developing story · 2 episodes · 18 Oct to 20 Oct
The Race for Superior AI Search APIs
The saga tracks the rapid evolution of AI-native search APIs as companies like TinyFish and Exa compete on cost and performance. The latest development sees Exa claim its 3.0 API outperforms major rivals across eight key benchmarks.
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Exa claims Exa 3.0 search API leads Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on eight benchmarks
Exa Labs announced Exa 3.0, an upgraded web‑search API for AI agents. The release adds a larger, undisclosed embedding model, a new "Lite" search type priced at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic…
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TinyFish provides free search and fetch, benchmark shows $9.30 per 1,000 tasks
TinyFish, a web‑infrastructure company for AI agents, frames its Search and Fetch APIs as free within published limits – 30 search requests per minute and 500 per hour, plus 150 fetch URLs per…
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