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Perplexity

Answer engines · by Perplexity AI

Answer engine that searches the web for each question and writes a reply with numbered links to the pages it used.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

ChatGPT

Answer engines · by OpenAI

OpenAI's assistant, which can search the web during a chat and show links to the pages behind its answer.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Google Search

Answer engines · by Google

The largest web search engine, which now places AI-written overviews with source links above many results.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Microsoft Copilot

Answer engines · by Microsoft

Microsoft's consumer assistant that answers with web results from Bing and links to its sources.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Bing

Answer engines · by Microsoft

Microsoft's web search engine, with AI-generated answers and a Copilot chat mode alongside regular results.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

You.com

Answer engines ·

AI search and research assistant that writes cited answers and lets you pick between several AI models.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Claude

Answer engines · by Anthropic

Anthropic's assistant, which can search the web when you ask and cite the pages it read.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Gemini

Answer engines · by Google

Google's assistant, which draws on Google Search for current topics and can check its reply against search results.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

Grok

Answer engines · by xAI

xAI's assistant, which searches the web and posts on X to answer questions about current events.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

DuckDuckGo

Privacy-minded search ·

Search engine that says it doesn't build profiles of its users, with optional AI answers and a private AI chat.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Brave Search

Privacy-minded search · by Brave Software

Search engine with its own independent web index, AI-written answers and no profiling of users.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Startpage

Privacy-minded search ·

Private search engine that shows Google results without passing your identity to Google, with an anonymous page viewer.

  • Free to use or free plan

Kagi

Privacy-minded search ·

Paid, ad-free search engine where you can block or boost sites, with AI summaries and an assistant built in.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers

Mojeek

Privacy-minded search ·

Independent search engine with its own crawler and index, built in the UK around not tracking users.

  • Free to use or free plan

Ecosia

Privacy-minded search ·

Search engine that uses its ad income to fund tree planting, with an AI chat option and a mobile browser.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Qwant

Privacy-minded search ·

French search engine focused on privacy, with results in many European languages and AI-written summaries for some queries.

  • Free to use or free plan

Google Scholar

Academic search · by Google

Free search engine for scholarly papers, theses and books, with citation counts and links to free versions.

  • Free to use or free plan

Semantic Scholar

Academic search · by Allen Institute for AI

Free academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI, with one-line paper summaries and citation context.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

Elicit

Academic search ·

Research assistant that finds papers for a question and pulls their findings into a table you can sort and check.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

Consensus

Academic search ·

Search engine that answers questions from peer-reviewed research and shows which papers support each point.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan

scite

Academic search ·

Shows how later papers cite a study, including whether the citing papers support or dispute its findings.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers

OpenAlex

Academic search · by OurResearch

Free, open index of research papers, authors and institutions, searchable on the web and through an API.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

CORE

Academic search · by The Open University

Search engine for open access research papers, aggregating full texts from repositories and journals worldwide.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

Connected Papers

Academic search ·

Builds a visual graph of papers related to one you choose, so you can find earlier and later work on a topic.

  • Free to use or free plan

Sourcegraph

Code search ·

Code search across many repositories at once, used by engineering teams to find and understand code in large codebases.

GitHub code search

Code search · by GitHub

Search across public code on GitHub and your own repositories, with filters by language, path and repository.

  • Free to use or free plan

grep.app

Code search · by Vercel

Fast search across a large set of public Git repositories, with support for regular expressions.

  • Free to use or free plan

DevDocs

Code search ·

One searchable interface for the documentation of many programming languages and frameworks, usable offline.

  • Free to use or free plan

Stack Overflow

Code search ·

Question and answer site for programmers, where answers are voted on and searchable by tag and error message.

  • Free to use or free plan

Glean

Workplace search ·

Workplace search and assistant that answers questions from a company's apps and documents while respecting their permissions.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers

Guru

Workplace search ·

Company knowledge base with AI search that answers questions from verified cards and connected apps.

  • AI-written answers

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Workplace search · by Microsoft

AI assistant inside Microsoft 365 that searches your organization's email, files, chats and meetings to answer questions.

  • Shows sources with answers
  • AI-written answers

Notion AI

Workplace search · by Notion

AI in Notion that answers questions from your workspace pages and connected apps, and drafts and summarizes text.

  • AI-written answers

Rovo

Workplace search · by Atlassian

Atlassian's AI search and chat that finds answers across Jira, Confluence and connected third-party apps.

  • AI-written answers

Exa

Search APIs ·

Web search API built for AI applications, returning results by meaning plus the page contents for an agent to read.

  • Developer API

Tavily

Search APIs ·

Search API for AI agents that returns relevant web results and extracted page content in one call.

  • Developer API

Brave Search API

Search APIs · by Brave Software

Developer access to Brave's independent web index, with web, news, image and AI-grounding endpoints.

  • Developer API

SerpApi

Search APIs ·

API that returns search engine result pages from Google and other engines as structured JSON.

  • Developer API

Programmable Search Engine

Search APIs · by Google

Google tool for adding a search box over chosen sites to your own pages, with a JSON API for developers.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

DataForSEO

Search APIs ·

APIs for search result data, keywords and backlinks, used by SEO tools and developers who need SERP data at scale.

  • Developer API

Jina AI

Search APIs ·

Tools for search developers, including a reader that turns a web page into clean text for language models.

  • Developer API

Microsoft Edge

Browsers with AI search · by Microsoft

Microsoft's browser with Copilot in a side panel that can summarize the page you're on and search the web.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Brave Leo

Browsers with AI search · by Brave Software

AI assistant built into the Brave browser that answers questions and summarizes pages, with a privacy-focused design.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Google Chrome

Browsers with AI search · by Google

Google's browser, which adds Gemini features for asking about a page and searches with Google Lens from the address bar.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Firefox

Browsers with AI search · by Mozilla

Mozilla's browser, which lets you choose an AI chatbot for its sidebar and keeps the choice optional.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Opera

Browsers with AI search ·

Browser with Aria, a free built-in AI assistant that answers questions and works with the page you have open.

  • AI-written answers
  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Algolia

Site and docs search ·

Hosted search for websites, stores and apps, with AI features for ranking, synonyms and conversational answers.

  • AI-written answers
  • Developer API

Typesense

Site and docs search ·

Open-source search engine you can host yourself or use in the cloud, with typo tolerance and vector search.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

Meilisearch

Site and docs search ·

Open-source search engine for sites and apps, self-hosted or in the cloud, with fast typo-tolerant and hybrid search.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API

Elastic

Site and docs search ·

Company behind Elasticsearch, a search and analytics engine used for site search, logs and AI retrieval.

  • Developer API

Coveo

Site and docs search ·

AI search and recommendations for large websites, stores, support portals and workplaces.

  • AI-written answers
  • Developer API

Vectara

Site and docs search ·

Platform for building AI search and question answering over your own documents, offered as a hosted API.

  • AI-written answers
  • Developer API

Google Lens

Visual search · by Google

Search with your camera or a photo to identify objects, plants and products, translate text and find similar images.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Mobile app

Google Images

Visual search · by Google

Google's image search, where you can search by words or upload a picture to find where else it appears.

  • Free to use or free plan

Bing Visual Search

Visual search · by Microsoft

Microsoft's search by image: upload or snap a photo to find similar images, products and information about it.

  • Free to use or free plan

TinEye

Visual search · by Idée

Reverse image search engine that finds where a picture appears online and which copy came first.

  • Free to use or free plan
  • Developer API