AI-Native Search APIs (10)
Search APIs built specifically for LLMs and AI agents. Return structured, embedding-ready results instead of raw HTML.
Exa
Editor's PickNeural search engine using embeddings-based next-link prediction — finds semantically similar content, not just keyword matches.
Tavily
Most PopularReal-time search API purpose-built for AI agents and RAG pipelines, now owned by Nebius Group.
Perplexity Sonar
LLM-powered search API with built-in citations, offering multi-tier model options from fast to deep research.
You.com
Composable search APIs for web, news, images, and deep AI research — built for enterprise-scale agent workloads.
Parallel AI
Web infrastructure APIs built on a proprietary index with 8 specialized research engines, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Linkup
AI search with proprietary 'information-atom' indexing that licenses content from publishers rather than scraping it.
Jina AI
Reader API that converts URLs to clean markdown, plus embeddings, rerankers, and DeepSearch — now part of Elastic.
LLMLayer
Model-agnostic web search API that adds search capabilities to any LLM with a single API call.
Andi Search
AI-powered search engine with a conversational interface and API access, focused on ad-free, privacy-respecting results.
SearXNG
Open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from 70+ search engines — self-hostable with API access.