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24 alternatives to Anton by Objective

Near-human quality evaluation for search results, in an API

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. Anton by Objective launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey there HN, I'm Pablo from Objective. We're working on an AI-native Search platform. Today we're releasing Anton (https://www.objective.inc/anton) an API that you can use to evaluate relevance for any search system. We would love your feedback. Here's a quick demo by my co-founder Lance: https://youtu.be/geX8mwBGqIo Why we created Anton: In every company we've worked, it was very slow and costly to spot check a new model, or to thoroughly evaluate a release candidate, or to compare a few competing approaches for how to improve search going forward. In each of…

    2024 · objective.inc · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8 If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing…

    2025 · crustdata.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m Yanjun, co-founder of Lessie AI. We built Lessie AI as a People Search AI Agent — designed to help you find anyone in seconds: - Influencers for campaigns - Partners for collaborations - Experts for insights - Founders or investors to connect with Instead of spending hours doing LinkedIn / Google searches, Lessie automates the whole workflow: - Understand your request — type what you need, any role or profile - Search across multiple data sources — trying different strategies to find the right people - AI review + scoring — profiles are automatically filtered and ranked so…

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