Exa vs Defapi vs Blackbox AI 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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DDefapi
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Blackbox AI
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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 DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Blackbox AI
blackbox.ai
Blackbox AI is an inference platform built around privacy and speed.
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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
2.4Kvisits/mo
1.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 7.7%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
-73.6%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
#24,905
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
1.8M
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
41%
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Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
6.0
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Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
1m 59s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 6%
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ExaDefapiBlackbox AITavily
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
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Starting price
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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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Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
AudioTextImages
CodeText
Web pagesText
Output
TextData
TextImagesAudio
TextCode
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Developer ToolsAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
Website crawling
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AI search
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Search engine
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Web search
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Webscraping
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API management
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Searching
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Real time web analysis
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Text extraction
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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.