🔍Search & Scrape
Web search APIs, scrapers, and browse-as-a-service for grounding agents.
Machine board /api/leaderboards?category=search-scrape. Editorial 0–10, not Arena Elo. Alternatives for the current top row: /alternatives/meilisearch-cloud.
Meilisearch Cloud
Typesense/Algolia peer for product + RAG hybrid search. Prefer Typesense when hourly HA clusters are clearer…
Brave Search API
Best privacy-forward search API with an independent index. Strong complement to Tavily/Exa.
Browserbase
Depot default for agents that need a real browser. Pair with Stagehand/Browser Use for the reasoning loop.
Exa
Depot pick for research-style agent search. Pair with Firecrawl when you need full page content.
Tavily
Depot co-default for agent web search with Exa. Pick Tavily for classic SERP-like agent search.
Typesense Cloud
Hybrid search peer when you want Algolia-like DX without per-request fees. Sample $0.03/hr floor pinned…
Full ranking
| # | Provider | Overall | Fit | $/perf | Latency | DX | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meilisearch Cloud | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 2 | Brave Search API | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 3 | Browserbase | 8.3 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 2026-10-19 |
| 4 | Exa | 8.3 | 9.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 2026-10-19 |
| 5 | Tavily | 8.3 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 6 | Typesense Cloud | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 7 | Steel.dev | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 8 | ZenRows | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 9 | Algolia | 8.3 | 9.0 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 9.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 10 | Browserless | 8.3 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 2026-09-14 |
| 11 | Firecrawl | 8.3 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 9.4 | 2026-10-19 |
| 12 | Scrapfly | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 13 | Linkup | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 14 | LlamaParse | 8.2 | 9.0 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 15 | Apify | 8.2 | 9.0 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 16 | Official MCP Registry | 8.2 | 7.0 | 9.8 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 2026-09-14 |
| 17 | SerpApi | 8.2 | 8.6 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 18 | People Data Labs | 8.1 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 19 | Unstructured | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 20 | Jina AI | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 21 | Parallel | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 22 | You.com API | 8.1 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 23 | Elasticsearch Serverless | 8.1 | 9.0 | 6.8 | 9.0 | 7.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 24 | Serper | 8.0 | 8.0 | 9.5 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 25 | Reducto | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 26 | Oxylabs | 8.0 | 8.8 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 27 | ScrapingBee | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 28 | ZoomInfo GTM AI | 8.0 | 8.8 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 29 | AWS Agent Registry | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 30 | Diffbot | 8.0 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 31 | OpenAgora | 7.9 | 8.2 | 9.2 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 32 | Skyvern | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 33 | Hyperbrowser | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 34 | Google Cloud Agent Registry | 7.8 | 8.5 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 7.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 35 | Enrich Layer (ex-Proxycurl) | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 36 | AgentQL | 7.7 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 37 | Apollo.io | 7.7 | 8.8 | 6.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 38 | Smithery | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 39 | Perplexity | 7.7 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 40 | Bright Data | 7.7 | 9.2 | 5.5 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 41 | PulseMCP | 7.7 | 8.4 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 42 | Composio | 7.6 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 2026-10-19 |
| 43 | A2A Registry (a2a-registry.dev) | 7.6 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 44 | Glama | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 45 | Browser Use Cloud | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
Sunset / deprecated
- Bing Search API (Azure) — excluded from active leaderboards
- Clearbit / HubSpot Enrichment — excluded from active leaderboards