Exa vs Defapi vs Thunderbit vs Firecrawl

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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Thunderbit
Competitor 3
Firecrawl
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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
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Competitor Thunderbit
thunderbit.com
Thunderbit is an AI web scraper that turns any webpage into a spreadsheet without code.
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Competitor Firecrawl
firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl is a web data API that gives AI agents and applications clean content from the live web.
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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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ExaDefapiThunderbitFirecrawl
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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$16per month · free tier available
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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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Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
Web pages
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
AudioImagesText
Data
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeAI Lead GenerationAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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12
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APIs
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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AI search
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API integrations
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Lead generation
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Search engine
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Webscraping
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API management
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No-code
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Price monitoring
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Research
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Text to spreadsheet conversion
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Web search
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Website interaction
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Website to JSON
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API security
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Agents
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Competitive analysis
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Customer feedback analysis
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Developer tools
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Development
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Maps data scraping
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Price tracking
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Real estate listings
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Spreadsheets
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