Every price we publish is read at the vendor's own pricing page, linked in place and stamped with the month it was read. Where a competitor is better at something, the article says so by name. That is the whole editorial policy.
Eight providers with published list prices side by side, from Serper at $0.30 per
1,000 on its largest pack up to the Anthropic web search tool at $10. Includes the
argument the price table hides: cost per request is not cost per answer once your
agent has to fetch the pages itself.
30 August 2026
Serper, Neurobird Search, Brave, Exa, Linkup, Firecrawl and the Anthropic web
search tool, each with published prices and what it is actually for. Includes
three cases where staying on Tavily is the right call.
30 August 2026
The same request and response shape, so switching is a base URL and a token.
Includes a runnable migration example and an honest list of what Tavily still
does better: latency, its own retrieval stack, SDKs and a wider product surface.
29 August 2026
Google discontinues the Custom Search JSON API on 1 January 2027, so anything
built on it needs a plan inside the year. What the equivalent request looks like
elsewhere, and what you lose in the move.
29 August 2026