Exa vs BrowserAct vs Perplexity Sonar API

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

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Exa
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BrowserAct
Competitor 2
Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Exa: Tavily85% Parallel Web Systems84% Brave Search API80% You.com74% Olostep74% Firecrawl72% TabTabTab71% SearchCans70%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor BrowserAct
browseract.com
BrowserAct is a no-code web scraping platform that builds a reusable scraper from one prompt.
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Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
163.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▲ 12.3%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-5.0%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#275,930
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
147.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
42%
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Pages / visit
4.3
2.5
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Visit duration
3m 23s
1m 07s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
● Direct 76% · ● Referral 23%
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ExaBrowserActPerplexity Sonar API
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KBrowserAct · 93.9KBrowserAct · 107.8KBrowserAct · 137.1KBrowserAct · 172.1KBrowserAct · 135.9KBrowserAct · 116.8KBrowserAct · 133.9KBrowserAct · 145.6KBrowserAct · 163.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
Free tier
$16per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeBasic $16/moEssential $70/moAdvanced $120/mo
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Text
Output
DataText
Data
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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6
APIs
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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Development
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AI search
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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No-code
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Research
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Web search summaries
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Developer tools
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Price search
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Website to JSON
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Prompts
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