Exa vs Defapi vs Olostep vs Brave Search 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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DDefapi
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Olostep
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Brave Search API
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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 Olostep
olostep.com
Olostep is a web data API for AI agents and developers.
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Competitor Brave Search API
brave.com
Brave Search API gives developers programmatic access to Brave's independent web index, which covers 40+ billion pages and receives 100+ million page updates a day.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
27.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▲ 13.3%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
+269.4%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
#1,046,647
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
21.6K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
42%
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Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
2.0
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Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
56s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Referral 51% · ● Direct 49%
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ExaDefapiOlostepBrave Search API
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 · 2.4KOlostep · 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 · 930.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOlostep · 8.8KOlostep · 7.7KOlostep · 7.4KOlostep · 11.2KOlostep · 15.6KOlostep · 13.2KOlostep · 24.3KOlostep · 27.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Paid
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Starting price
Free tier
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$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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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 FreeStarter $9/moStandard $99/moScale $399/mo+4 more
Search CustomAnswers CustomSpellcheck CustomAutosuggest Custom+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Web pagesText
Text
Output
TextData
AudioImagesText
TextData
TextData
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 API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
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10
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APIs
Website crawling
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Web scraping
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Web search
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API integrations
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Search engine
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AI search
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Webscraping
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API management
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Developer tools
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Events monitoring
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Markdown conversion
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Research
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Web search summaries
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Website monitoring
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API security
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Best ranking search
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Development
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Monitoring
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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.