Exa vs CometAPI vs Olostep vs Tavily

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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CometAPI
Competitor 2
Olostep
Competitor 3
Tavily
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Competitor Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
302.3Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▲ 9.9%
▲ 13.3%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-16.5%
+269.4%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#157,147
#1,046,647
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
295.7K
21.6K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
46%
42%
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Pages / visit
4.3
2.9
2.0
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Visit duration
3m 23s
38s
56s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
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ExaCometAPIOlostepTavily
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$4per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
ImagesText
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
ImagesTextVideo
DataText
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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11
APIs
Website crawling
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Web scraping
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Webscraping
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Web search
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Developer tools
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Research
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AI search
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LLM gateway
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Search engine
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API integrations
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Agents
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Events monitoring
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Markdown conversion
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Searching
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Website monitoring
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Development
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Image generation
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Monitoring
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Real time web analysis
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Text extraction
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Video generation
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Website to JSON
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.