
Exa provides neural web search designed specifically for LLM grounding, but relies on its own custom vector index rather than Ahrefs.

10 alternatives to Yep.com, matched by what they do.
| exa.ai |
| 1.06M |
| 152.79K (+16.8%) |
| Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| United States |
| 4.5 |
| Compare |
| 2 | You.com | you.com | 948.35K | 61.92K (+7%) | Freemium | United States | 4.4 | Compare |
| 3 | Jina AI | jina.ai | 280.78K | -55.67K (-16.5%) | Freemium, Paid | United States | 4.7 | Compare |
| 4 | TinyFish | tinyfish.ai | 1.12M | 749.57K (+199.7%) | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | United States | 4.4 | Compare |
| 5 | Octen | octen.ai | 11.65K | 828 (+7.6%) | Free Trial, Paid | Singapore | 4.4 | Compare |
| 6 | Bocha AI Search | bochaai.com | 36.22K | -331 (-0.9%) | Paid, Free | China | 4.4 | Compare |
| 7 | LangSearch | langsearch.com | 2K | 190 (+10.5%) | Freemium | India | 4.3 | Compare |
| 8 | Serpex | serpex.dev | 2.41K | -1.26K (-34.3%) | Freemium, Free Trial, Paid | India | 4.3 | Compare |
| 9 | Firecrawl | firecrawl.dev | 1.83M | -35.65K (-1.9%) | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | United States | 4.7 | Compare |
| 10 | Perplexity | perplexity.ai | 88.31M | -3.39M (-3.7%) | Freemium | United States | 4.7 | Compare |

Exa provides neural web search designed specifically for LLM grounding, but relies on its own custom vector index rather than Ahrefs.

You.com offers real-time web search APIs for LLM applications, but includes broader conversational inference features.
You.com offers real-time web search APIs for LLM applications, but includes broader conversational inference features.

Jina AI offers powerful document reading and web search APIs, but focuses more heavily on embedding and reranking infrastructure.
Jina AI offers powerful document reading and web search APIs, but focuses more heavily on embedding and reranking infrastructure.

TinyFish provides live web search and agentic browsing automation, but is tailored more toward browser task execution than static index queries.
Octen delivers low-latency web search and extraction APIs for AI agents, but has a smaller developer ecosystem.
Octen delivers low-latency web search and extraction APIs for AI agents, but has a smaller developer ecosystem.
Bocha provides search engine APIs built for AI agents, but specializes primarily in Asian language and multimodal vertical search.
Bocha provides search engine APIs built for AI agents, but specializes primarily in Asian language and multimodal vertical search.
LangSearch offers live web results and rerank APIs for LLM agents, but lacks the massive proprietary Ahrefs backlink index.
LangSearch offers live web results and rerank APIs for LLM agents, but lacks the massive proprietary Ahrefs backlink index.
Serpex returns structured JSON search results for AI applications, but lacks advanced semantic grounding features.
SpecialistFirecrawl crawls and converts websites into clean LLM markdown, but is primarily a scraper rather than a live search index.
SpecialistFirecrawl crawls and converts websites into clean LLM markdown, but is primarily a scraper rather than a live search index.
SpecialistPerplexity provides cited conversational answer engines with robust web search, but focuses primarily on end-user chat interfaces.
SpecialistPerplexity provides cited conversational answer engines with robust web search, but focuses primarily on end-user chat interfaces.