Metaphor vs SerpAPI — Comparison

Metaphor

The Exa Web search API retrieves the best, realtime data from the web for your AI

Dear curious internet wanderer, We don't have ads. We sell our search as an API, optimized exclusively for quality, latency, and customizability. That's why customers like Cursor, Lovable, and thousands of others use us to power agents and workflows. But that's just today. Exa's ultimate goal is perfect search. What is perfect search? It's simple – you should be able to know anything about the world. Literally anything, like: Perfect search is highly controllable, unbiased, comprehensive. Because we lack it, we each walk around with an incomplete understanding of nearly everything. Building perfect search will be extremely hard. But it's also necessary. It's critical civilizational infrastructure for our new AI reality. Politics is fragmenting, wars are raging, and technology is accelerating -- we need tools that deeply inform us what's going on. If we don't gain control over the planet's information, we will lose control over our planet. In short, the world needs perfect search. It needs an organization with pure incentives to build it. And because no one else is doing it, that's why we have to. Building a search engine from scratch requires building massive-scale infrastructure. There are 100s of billions of webpages (roughly an exabyte!) that need storing, processing, indexing, and serving at high throughput. Building this is fun but quite difficult. That's why search tools, like ChatGPT, rely on 3rd party search engines under the hood. We're lucky to now own hundreds of H200s worth of research compute... also known as our exa-cluster :) We've been assembling some of the smartest engineers, researchers, and operators in the world to build the best search engine in history. We've raised over $100M from top investors including Benchmark, Lightspeed, Nvidia, and YC, and are advised by top researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Bing. Will was one of the first engineers at Cresta where he built real time AI products. He studied CS and physics at Harvard, where he researched human/AI interaction and led the robotics club. Will considers himself an expert in both embedding models and chocolate chip cookies -- the jury is still out on which is more critical for company operations. Jeff spent three years building data and web infra at Plaid. He studied CS and Philosophy at Harvard, where he ran a GPU cluster in his dorm room and was roommates with Will. The team estimates that 20% of social analysis in San Francisco traces back to one of Jeff's many viral tweets. Ben previously did quant trading at SIG and before that took the hardest math course in the country at Harvard. When we find frisbees, tailor made suits, or scribbled math formulas lying around the office, there's usually a Ben behind it. Hubert previously worked on projects like particle simulations and automated wheelchairs. He studied CS in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University. Hubert's a

SerpAPI

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

Choose the plan that suits you best. Explore all search engines we support or check out our complete API list. Start integration with your preferred language. Dive deeper into our advanced features. Use SERP data to automate your business needs. Explore company information and helpful guides. Leverage our infrastructure (IPs across the globe, full browser cluster, and CAPTCHA solving technology), and exploit our structured SERP data in the way you want. Our U.S. Legal Shield covers the scraping and parsing of search engine data, as long as your use of the data or service is not illegal. Such illegal use includes, by way of example and not limitation, copyright infringement, DMCA violations, other intellectual property infringement, privacy violations, fraud, harassment, cybercrime, terrorism, child exploitation, denial-of-service attacks, or war crimes. In short, we assume liability for the lawful collection of public search data, but not for how that data is ultimately used. Included with the Production Plan and above, with up to $2 million in coverage. Month-to-month contract. Cancel anytime. Start for free, upgrade as you grow, or contact our team about an enterprise plan tailored to your volume, performance, and compliance needs. You are in good company. Join them. For more answers visit our FAQ page Choose the plan that suits you best. Explore all search engines we support or check out our complete API list. Start integration with your preferred language. Dive deeper into our advanced features. Use SERP data to automate your business needs. Explore company information and helpful guides. Start for free, upgrade as you grow, or contact our team about an enterprise plan tailored to your volume, performance, and compliance needs. Contact us at contact@serpapi.com. We'll be glad to help. You are in good company. Join them.

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