Exa vs Firecrawl vs Defapi vs Context.dev

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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Firecrawl
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
Context.dev
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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 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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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 Context.dev
context.dev
Brand.dev is a web scraping API for AI agents and LLM products.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
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2.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
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▼ 42.6%
▲ 26.4%
6-month growth
+16.3%
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-86.2%
-68.4%
Global rank web
#55,392
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#4,650,820
#3,017,624
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
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4.8K
4.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
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36%
0%
Pages / visit
4.3
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1.4
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Visit duration
3m 23s
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7s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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ExaFirecrawlDefapiContext.dev
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 · 2.4KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8K1K10K100K1M10MExa · 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 · 2.4KContext.dev · 25.2KContext.dev · 19.7KContext.dev · 27.3KContext.dev · 14.4KContext.dev · 6.3KContext.dev · 8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$16per month · free tier available
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$19per month · free tier available
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Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeHobby $16/moStandard $83/moGrowth $333/mo+2 more
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
Plan $19.0 $19/moPlan $99.0 $99/moPlan $299.0 $299/moPlan $499.0 $499/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
TextWeb pages
AudioImagesText
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Output
DataText
DataText
AudioImagesText
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Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI Web Scraping
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeResearch & AnalyticsAI APIAI Research Tool+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Web scraping
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Website crawling
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AI search
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Search engine
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