Exa vs Text-Generator vs Perplexity Sonar API vs Tavily

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Exa
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Competitor 1
Text-Generator
Competitor 2
Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 3
Tavily
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
Competitor Text-Generator
text-generator.io
Text-Generator gives you 100 free requests monthly to start
Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
Competitor Tavily
tavily.com
Tavily is a real-time search and web access API for AI agents.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
930.8Kvisits/mo
1.3Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 9.9%
▼ 10.3%
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6-month growth
+16.3%
+27.3%
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Global rank web
#55,392
#12,444,825
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Avg. last 3 months
844.7K
1.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
39%
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Pages / visit
4.3
1.1
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Visit duration
3m 23s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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ExaText-GeneratorPerplexity Sonar APITavily
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3K1001K10K100K1M10MExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
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API access
Plans
Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Researcher FreePay As You Go $0.01Project Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
AudioCodeImagesText
Text
TextWeb pages
Output
DataText
AudioCodeText
Text
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Website crawling
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AI search
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Search engine
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Research
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Text to speech
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Web scraping
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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.