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Exa Search leads on cost, AgentSearch on ease of use for AI agents

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A comparison of web search and extraction APIs for AI agents reveals Exa Search as the cheapest for search requests at $0.004 per 1,000, and Exa Contents for page extraction at $0.001 per 1,000. However, AgentSearch offers the lowest barrier to entry with no account, API key, or prepaid credits, charging $0.005 per call and allowing payment in USDC. Other services like SerpApi and Firecrawl offer plan-based or credit systems that result in higher per-call costs when factoring in full plan usage. AI

IMPACT Provides cost-optimization data for developers building AI agents that require web search and data extraction capabilities.

RANK_REASON Comparison of pricing for existing AI agent tools.

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Exa Search leads on cost, AgentSearch on ease of use for AI agents

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · AgentSearch ·

    Cheapest Web Search API for AI Agents in 2026

    <p>Most "cheapest search API" posts compare monthly plans, but agents are billed per call. This post compares the <strong>published per-call prices</strong> of web search and extraction APIs that developers use with AI agents.</p> <p><strong>How we did this.</strong> We checked e…

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