Exa vs Defapi vs Blackbox AI

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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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
Blackbox AI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Exa: Tavily85% Parallel Web Systems84% Brave Search API80% You.com74% Olostep74% Firecrawl72% SearchCans70% Perplexity Sonar API70%
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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 DDefapi
defapi.org
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Competitor Blackbox AI
blackbox.ai
Blackbox AI is an inference platform built around privacy and speed.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
1.5Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 7.7%
6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
-73.6%
Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
#24,905
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
1.8M
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
41%
Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
6.0
Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
1m 59s
Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 6%
ExaDefapiBlackbox AI
02.3M4.7M7M9.3MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KBlackbox AI · 9.3MBlackbox AI · 6.9MBlackbox AI · 5.2MBlackbox AI · 5.5MBlackbox AI · 5.6MBlackbox AI · 5.1MBlackbox AI · 3.9MBlackbox AI · 2.4MBlackbox AI · 1.6MBlackbox AI · 1.5M1K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KBlackbox AI · 9.3MBlackbox AI · 6.9MBlackbox AI · 5.2MBlackbox AI · 5.5MBlackbox AI · 5.6MBlackbox AI · 5.1MBlackbox AI · 3.9MBlackbox AI · 2.4MBlackbox AI · 1.6MBlackbox AI · 1.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
CodeText
Output
DataText
AudioImagesText
CodeText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
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3
APIs
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AI search
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Website crawling
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Research
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Web scraping
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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.