Web data tools for RAG

Aimed at retrieval-augmented generation, feeding fresh, sourced context into a model at query time. The common reason AI products reach for web data at all.

7 tools

Tavily

Real-time search API built for AI agents and RAG pipelines

FreemiumMar 2026AI-Native Search APIs

You.com

Composable web, news, and research search APIs for enterprise agents

PaidMar 2026AI-Native Search APIs

Linkup

AI search that licenses publisher content instead of scraping it

FreemiumMar 2026AI-Native Search APIs

Jina AI

Reader API that turns any URL into clean markdown, now part of Elastic

FreemiumMar 2026AI-Native Search APIs

Andi Search

Ad-free, privacy-first AI search that answers rather than lists links

FreemiumMar 2026AI-Native Search APIs

Seltz

Web knowledge API running its own Rust crawler and hybrid index

FreemiumJun 2026AI-Native Search APIs

Crawl4AI

Open-source crawler shaped for RAG, the most-starred on GitHub

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