Exa vs Defapi vs Jina Reader vs Tavily

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

Your tool
Exa
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
Jina Reader
Competitor 3
Tavily
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
Competitor Jina Reader
jina.ai
Jina Reader converts a web page into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown.
Competitor Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
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Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
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Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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ExaDefapiJina ReaderTavily
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 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 · 2.4K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 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 · 2.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Free
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
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API access
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
Free Tier FreePaid (Token-based) Custom
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Web pagesImagesDocuments
TextWeb pages
Output
TextData
AudioImagesText
Text
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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11
APIs
Web scraping
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Web search
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Website crawling
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Developer tools
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Research
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Text extraction
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AI search
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API integrations
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Markdown conversion
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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API management
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Agents
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OCR
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Searching
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API security
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Development
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RAG
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Real time web analysis
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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.