Exa vs Defapi vs You.com vs Jina Reader

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
You.com
Competitor 3
Jina Reader
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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 You.com
you.com
Search rebuilt for AI
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Competitor Jina Reader
jina.ai
Jina Reader converts a web page into clean, LLM-friendly Markdown.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
971Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 3.5%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
-86.2%
-32.4%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#4,650,820
#56,627
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
4.8K
1M
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
36%
47%
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Pages / visit
4.3
1.4
2.7
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Visit duration
3m 23s
7s
1m 44s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 4%
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ExaDefapiYou.comJina Reader
0444.1K888.1K1.3M1.8MExa · 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 · 2.4KYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 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 · 2.4KYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free tier
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$1per month · free tier available
Free
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API access
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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
Free FreeWeb Search API $5Contents API $1Answer API $5+2 more
Free Tier FreePaid (Token-based) Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
AudioImagesText
TextWeb pages
Web pagesImagesDocuments
Output
TextData
TextImagesAudio
TextData
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI API
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & Analytics+5 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Document ExtractionAI Web Scraping
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web scraping
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Search engine
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Research
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Markdown conversion
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Website crawling
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Text extraction
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Chatbot integration
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Chatbots
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Development
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OCR
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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.