Defapi vs Exa vs Brave Search API vs Vercel AI Gateway

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

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DDefapi
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Exa
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Brave Search API
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Vercel AI Gateway
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor 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 Vercel AI Gateway
vercel.com
Vercel AI Gateway is a single API endpoint for hundreds of AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, open-source providers and more.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
2.4Kvisits/mo
930.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 42.6%
▲ 9.9%
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6-month growth
-86.2%
+16.3%
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Global rank web
#4,650,820
#55,392
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Avg. last 3 months
4.8K
844.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
36%
38%
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Pages / visit
1.4
4.3
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Visit duration
7s
3m 23s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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DefapiExaBrave Search APIVercel AI Gateway
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8K1K10K100K1M10MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Paid
Freemium
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Starting price
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Free tier
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
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 $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Search CustomAnswers CustomSpellcheck CustomAutosuggest Custom+1 more
Hobby FreePro $20/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioImagesText
TextWeb pages
Text
TextImagesAudio
Output
AudioImagesText
TextData
TextData
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
API integrations
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Search engine
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API management
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AI search
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LLM gateway
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Model routing
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Web search
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Website crawling
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LLM management
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Large language models
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Research
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Web scraping
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