AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Damn Good Search
Search the web. Read any page. $1.50 per 1,000.
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.
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Exa 3.0free tier, from $4/mo▲187Smarter search that gives AI agent richer data at lower cost
2d ago · exa.ai · its alternatives →
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Build search agents with 10x cheaper web search
Jun 2026 · liner.com · its alternatives →
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DollarAI.Store▲119Use the exact tool you need, exactly when you need it for $1
2024 · mv-macht-schlau.de · its alternatives →
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IndexedAI▲89Your site scores X/100 for AI agents with next steps
May 2026 · indexedai.tech · its alternatives →
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Zinc▲143A simple API to help your AI agent search and order online
2025 · zinc.com · its alternatives →
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Trails▲81Hey all, Justin here. I previously built Phind, the AI search engine for developers. One of the biggest problems we had there was figuring out what went wrong with bad searches. We had tons of searches per day, but less than 1% of users gave any explicit feedback. So we were either manually digging through searches or making general system improvements and hoping they helped. This problem gets harder with agents. Traces are longer and more complex. It takes more effort to review them, so I'm building a tool that lets you analyze LLM outputs directly to help developers of LLM apps and agents…
Jan 2026 · trails-red.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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100+ search APIs for LLMs, AI apps, agents, and developers
Jun 2026 · serpapi.com · its alternatives →
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Crawly▲21Ask AI anything about webpage or website with one API
2025 · crawly.dev · its alternatives →
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See if AI recommends your business: free, in 60 seconds
Jul 2026 · areyoufoundbyai.com · its alternatives →
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£9.99/month Google Search API alternative for indie hackers
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Build marketing dashboards in 60 seconds using AI
Dec 2025 · 1clickreport.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a solo dev in Taiwan. I built 4 AI agents that handle content, sales leads, security scanning, and ops for my tech agency — all on Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier (1,500 req/day). I use ~105. Monthly LLM cost: $0. Architecture: 4 agents on OpenClaw (open source), running on WSL2 at home with 25 systemd timers. What they do every day: - Generate 8 social posts across platforms (quality-gated: generate → self-review → rewrite if score < 7/10) - Engage with community posts and auto-reply to comments (context-aware, max 2 rounds) - Research via RSS + HN API + Jina Reader → feed…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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Google Search API for real-time SERP JSON plus Reader API for URL-to-Markdown in AI agents and RAG. No hourly limits. Prepaid from $0.56/1K, 100 free credits.
Nov 2025 · searchcans.com · its alternatives →
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Keenable – A different web search API for AI agentsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲12Hey HN! We built https://keenable.ai, a different web search API for AI agents. Keenable searches our own 100B+ page index. We are focused on low cost and latency (p95 <250ms from us-east). We don’t believe in benchmaxxing, so we open-sourced our internal benchmarking suite, NEEDLE (available at https://keenableai.github.io/needle): a live benchmark that compares Keenable with other search APIs on fresh agent-like queries. I spent seven years at Amazon as a scientist working on web grounding for Alexa/AGI, and my co-founder Andrey previously led search at…
Aug 2026 · keenable.ai · its alternatives →
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Jello SEO▲11I was watching Deep Research do hours of research in minutes and thought why the hell am I still manually clicking through Ahrefs trying to guess what keywords to check? So I built an AI that does keyword research the same way. The problem with traditional keyword tools is they assume you already know what to look for. But I'd sit there thinking "okay I'm building a developer tool... do I search for 'API monitoring'? 'webhook debugging'? 'API testing'?" Then I'd spend an hour going down rabbit holes and miss the fact that "Postman alternative open source" or something like that gets 2k…
2025 · jelloseo.com · its alternatives →
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Citera▲9AI agents that interview your team and ship daily content
May 2026 · citerahq.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I built a free AI SEO app called seoby.ai. I'm launching it on ProductHunt, Reddit and a few other places on Monday (19th February). It's 100% free, and has some pretty neat tools: 1. AI Content Detector: Find out if your content was written by a human or generated by AI. 2. AI Outline Generator: Remove writer's block and generate SEO-friendly outlines for your articles, blog posts, and landing pages. 3. AI SEO Topic Cluster Generator: Generate SEO-optimized topic clusters for your website and get better search engine visibility. I would love feedback/ideas/suggestions of…
2024 · seoby.ai · its alternatives →
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AI search results are quickly becoming more important than SEO, but as businesses, we have no visibility over it! That's why I'm building "Ahrefs for AI search results". Track keyword performance on AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & more
2025 · linrush.com · its alternatives →
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One Key. Models, Tools & Vector DB Included. Start Free.
Jun 2026 · dashboard.openadapter.in · its alternatives →
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Web scraping API for AI agents — URL to markdown
Apr 2026 · crawlapi.net · its alternatives →
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Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
May 2026 · getseoforai.com · its alternatives →
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