
Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
Affordable real-time search API that returns structured JSON plus page content in a single call.
Estimated monthly website visits
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Collected Nov 11, 2026

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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, Serpex (serpex.dev) is an AI platform indexed under AI API generating 2.41K monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of -1.26K (-34.3%). Its primary geographic market is India (91.3% traffic share), and it operates on a Freemium, Free Trial, Paid pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Exa (1.06M visits/mo), SearchCans (4.22K visits/mo), Jina AI (280.78K visits/mo).
Replaced two different scrapers with one Serpex endpoint, clean JSON output.
Extract endpoint saves hours of regex cleaning.
Rate limits hit faster than expected on free tier.
Fast API.
AI-synthesized perspectives grounded in live site inspection, pricing structure, and category benchmarks — presented as editorial viewpoints rather than individual customer testimonials.
Send a query and receive live web results as clean, structured JSON that is ready for parsing, ranking or feeding into a model.
Convert any URL into clean, readable markdown in the same API key, removing boilerplate so retrieved text is directly usable for RAG and summarization.
Requests are routed across multiple underlying search sources with health monitoring and automatic retries, so a single empty source does not break your pipeline.
Official libraries and snippets for Python, JavaScript, MCP and LangChain make it a few lines of code to add live search to an agent or app.
Only successful requests consume credits, credits do not expire, and volume discounts scale from small top-ups up to high-throughput plans.
Serpex provides two core endpoints behind a single API key: a Search endpoint that returns live web results as structured JSON, and an Extract endpoint that converts any URL into clean, readable markdown for AI ingestion. A standard search consumes one credit, and pulling page content along with results lets teams go from discovery to ingestion without juggling a second scraping vendor.
The service is positioned around affordability and throughput. Its published tiers scale from roughly $0.80 per 1,000 requests on small top-ups down to around $0.50 per 1,000 on the $500 tier, with custom pricing for very high volume. Serpex advertises automatic fallback across multiple underlying search sources, so if one source returns nothing the request fails over to another, along with retries and per-source health monitoring.
For developers, there are SDKs and integrations for Python, JavaScript, MCP and LangChain, plus a REST API. New accounts receive free trial credits without a card, and credits are described as non-expiring with a short money-back window on purchases.
Give chat assistants and autonomous agents fresh web context by piping real-time search results and page content into prompts or vector stores.
Pull structured results and full page text to analyse positioning, pricing changes and messaging across a market without manual collection.
Track how brands are surfaced and cited across AI answer engines and classic search by querying at scale and storing the returned content.
Use Search plus Extract as a single pipeline step that discovers relevant pages and returns cleaned markdown ready to embed.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Serpex | 2.41K | -34.3% | 39% direct | Freemium, Free Trial, Paid | Current |
| 1 | Exa | 1.06M | +16.8% | 57% direct | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | vs Exa |
| 2 | SearchCans | 4.22K | -46.2% | 39% direct | Free Trial, Paid | vs SearchCans |
| 3 | Jina AI | 280.78K | -16.5% | 51% direct | Freemium, Paid | vs Jina AI |
| 4 | TalorData SERP API | 17.07K | +4.8% | 63% direct | pay_as_you_go | vs TalorData SERP API |
| 5 | ScrapeGraphAI | 91.36K | -25.7% | 25% direct | Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing | vs ScrapeGraphAI |
| 6 | Firecrawl | 1.83M | -1.9% | 40% direct | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | vs Firecrawl |

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