Brave Search API vs Context.dev vs Firecrawl vs FastRouter

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Brave Search API
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Context.dev
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Firecrawl
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FastRouter
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Brave Search API
brave.com
Brave Search API gives developers programmatic access to Brave's independent web index, which covers 40+ billion pages and receives 100+ million page updates a day.
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Competitor Context.dev
context.dev
Brand.dev is a web scraping API for AI agents and LLM products.
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Competitor Firecrawl
firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl is a web data API that gives AI agents and applications clean content from the live web.
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Competitor FastRouter
fastrouter.ai
This LLM gateway lets teams tap into over 100 AI models through one API endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 26.4%
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▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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-68.4%
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+4.7%
Global rank web
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#3,017,624
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#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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4.7K
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23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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0%
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45%
Pages / visit
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1.5
Visit duration
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15s
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Brave Search APIContext.devFirecrawlFastRouter
010.4K20.8K31.2K41.6KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$19per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Search CustomAnswers CustomSpellcheck CustomAutosuggest Custom+1 more
Plan $19.0 $19/moPlan $99.0 $99/moPlan $299.0 $299/moPlan $499.0 $499/mo+1 more
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
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TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Output
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DataText
AudioImagesTextVideo
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeResearch & AnalyticsAI APIAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Developer tools
Web scraping
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Website crawling
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Web search
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Agents
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LLM gateway
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Model routing
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Webscraping
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Web search summaries
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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API management
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Best ranking search
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Research
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Search engine
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Text extraction
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