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I benchmarked 4 web search APIs for AI agents. Here's what each one is good at.

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Every AI agent that answers questions about the world needs web search, and choosing the API behind it is surprisingly hard. Vendor benchmarks are run by vendors, and most public evals use generic trivia that looks nothing like what an agent actually sends. So I built a small, open web search API e…

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  1. 2026-10-27 17:42 · DEV Community — AI
    I benchmarked 4 web search APIs for AI agents. Here's what each one is good at.

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