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24 alternatives to The new Firecrawl /search
Our most accurate Search API for AI agents.
Firecrawl /search is a search API designed for AI agents that returns relevant excerpts from search results rather than full pages. It uses a trained model to identify the most pertinent sections answering each query… 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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/agent by Firecrawl ▲569While building mendable - we found that feeding LLMs well-structured markdown improved accuracy. We also found it surprisingly hard. We found some great tools online, but none reliably handled the entire process. We wanted an API that took a URL, crawled the pages in the URL, and gave us an easy-to-use, up-to-date markdown we could feed into our index. So, we released an open-source repo and an API that crawls and turns entire websites into a markdown with just a few lines of code The API handles: - Crawling without consistent sitemaps - Infra to handle running many crawling jobs - Proxying,…
Dec 2025 · firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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An index for agents pushing the frontier of AI/ML research
Jun 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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Firecrawl CLI▲249Firecrawl skills are an easy way for AI agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode to use Firecrawl through the CLI.
Mar 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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AnySearch▲613Real-time structured search trusted by agents and developers
Jul 2026 · anysearch.com · its alternatives →
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Web Search Agents by Nimblefree tier, from $208.33/mo▲371Self-learning agents automate web research + retrieval
Aug 2026 · nimbleway.com · its alternatives →
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Person search APIfree▲790Hi 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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SellerClaw▲555A team of AI agents that runs your stores across channels
Jun 2026 · sellerai.com · its alternatives →
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Agent-ready web context for any MCP client.
Aug 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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stackoverflow.ai▲421AI-powered, conversational search and discovery tool
2025 · stackoverflow.com · its alternatives →
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Desearch▲113First Decentralized AI Search for Builders & Agents
2025 · desearch.ai · its alternatives →
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Continual learning for every coding agent on your team.
2025 · deeplake.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're Lennert and Rauf. We’re building Airweave (https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave), an open-source tool that lets agents search and retrieve data from any app or database. Here’s a general intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFI-7SYGQ48, and here’s a longer one that shows more real-world use cases, examples of how Airweave is used by Cursor (0:33) and Claude desktop (2:04), etc.: https://youtu.be/p2dl-39HwQo A couple of months ago we were building agents that interacted with different apps and were frustrated when they…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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APIEval-20▲121An open benchmark for AI agents that test APIs
May 2026 · resources.kusho.ai · its alternatives →
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An experimental AI-organized search results page
2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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GoSearch Free▲163GoSearch is the newest AI-powered enterprise search solution — by the makers of GoLinks, a YCombinator company. Available now at gosearch.ai! If you’re still reading, check out our other new product that just launched: GoProfiles.io, the only AI-powered HR platform.
2025 · gosearch.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My team and I are building Tabstack to handle the "web layer" for AI agents. Launch Post: https://tabstack.ai/blog/intro-browsing-infrastructure-ai-ag... Maintaining a complex infrastructure stack for web browsing is one of the biggest bottlenecks in building reliable agents. You start with a simple fetch, but quickly end up managing a complex stack of proxies, handling client-side hydration, and debugging brittle selectors. and writing custom parsing logic for every site. Tabstack is an API that abstracts that infrastructure. You send a URL and an intent; we…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Anakin▲148Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles anti-bot, proxy rotation, JS rendering, persistent authenticated sessions, and schema-based…
2021 · anakin.io · its alternatives →
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Local AI powered red teamer on a phone. Contribute to garagehq/nightcrawler development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Barcrawl▲3The web intelligence and execution layer for AI agents
Jul 2026 · barcrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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