Exa vs Defapi vs Vercel AI Gateway vs CometAPI

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
Competitor 2
Vercel AI Gateway
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CometAPI
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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 Vercel AI Gateway
vercel.com
Vercel AI Gateway is a single API endpoint for hundreds of AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, open-source providers and more.
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
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302.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
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▲ 9.9%
6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
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-16.5%
Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
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#157,147
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
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295.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
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46%
Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
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2.9
Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
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38s
Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
ExaDefapiVercel AI GatewayCometAPI
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 · 2.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 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 · 2.4KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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$20per month · free tier available
$4per 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
Hobby FreePro $20/moEnterprise Custom
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
TextImages
Output
TextData
TextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
VideoTextImages
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
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LLM gateway
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Search engine
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Website crawling
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Research
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Web scraping
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Development
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Image generation
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Video generation
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