Keenable – A different web search API for AI agents
Hey 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…
Keenable – A different web search API for AI agents launched on August 25, 2026 with 12 votes, #920 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Keenable provides a web search API designed specifically for AI agents, powered by its own 100-billion-page index. It prioritizes low cost and fast response times, with 95th percentile latency under 250 milliseconds. The service includes NEEDLE, an open-sourced benchmarking tool that compares Keenable's performance against other search APIs on agent-focused queries. It also offers a SQL-like interface for structured web data extraction. The platform includes a free tier of 100,000 monthly requests.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Keenable is independent web search infrastructure for AI: our own crawler, index and ranking, and it gets better the more agents use it.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey 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…
Pricing, as stated on its site
Free tier, paid plans from $0.004/mo — Free tier offers 100K requests/month. Paid tiers start at $4/1000 requests ($0.004/request) for pay-as-you-go, or $1/1000 requests at 100 RPS+ for enterprise.
checked October 2026 · prices change
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