Exa vs OpenRouter vs Defapi vs Elicit

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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OpenRouter
Competitor 2
DDefapi
Competitor 3
Elicit
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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 OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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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 Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▲ 14.6%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 37.4%
6-month growth
+16.3%
+39.6%
-86.2%
+0.1%
Global rank web
#55,392
#2,023
#4,650,820
#2,562,886
Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
19.5M
4.8K
12.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
32%
36%
37%
Pages / visit
4.3
7.7
1.4
1.5
Visit duration
3m 23s
6m 13s
7s
4s
Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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ExaOpenRouterDefapiElicit
05.5M11M16.5M22MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2K1K10K100K1M10M100MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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$10per month · free tier available
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Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
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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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
VideoTextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
TextDocuments
Output
DataText
AudioImagesTextVideo
TextImagesAudio
TextData
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 more
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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API management
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Medical research
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