Brave Search API vs Firecrawl vs Defapi 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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Firecrawl
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DDefapi
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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 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 DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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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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2.4Kvisits/mo
15.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▼ 62.7%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
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Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#1,733,591
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
23.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
45%
Pages / visit
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1.5
Visit duration
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● Direct 95% · ● Referral 5%
Brave Search APIFirecrawlDefapiFastRouter
010.4K20.8K31.2K41.6KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5K1K10K100KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KFastRouter · 4.9KFastRouter · 14.8KFastRouter · 11KFastRouter · 10.2KFastRouter · 12.2KFastRouter · 41.6KFastRouter · 15.5KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$16per month · free tier available
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$199per month · free tier available
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API access
Plans
Search CustomAnswers CustomSpellcheck CustomAutosuggest Custom+1 more
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Starter FreePro $199/moBusiness $799/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
TextWeb pages
ImagesTextAudio
TextImagesAudio
Output
DataText
DataText
TextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web scraping
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Webscraping
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Website crawling
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Website to JSON
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