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Exa

MCP
MCP Server
🔴Developer

Neural web search API and AI search engine built for LLM agents, with embedding-based retrieval and structured content extraction.

Free tier available; fetched pricing references request/page-based usage, including ranges such as $7, $12–15, and $0.025–$2.00 depending on API mode.View Details →

Genspark

🟢No Code

AI-powered search engine that generates comprehensive Sparkpages — custom, ad-free research pages synthesized from multiple sources.

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Morphic

MCP
MCP Client
🔴Developer

Open-source AI answer engine with a generative UI — a self-hostable Perplexity alternative.

Free and open source (MIT). Costs are whatever you pay for LLM tokens and search API calls — can be near-zero with Ollama + SearXNG self-hosted. Morphic.sh hosted is free with rate limits.View Details →

Perplexity

AI answer engine for web research with cited responses and follow-up questions.

$0 free tier; Pro is $20/month or $200/year; Max is $200/month or $2,000/year; Enterprise Pro is $40/month per seat or $400/year per seat; Enterprise Max is $325/month per seat or $3,250/year per seat.View Details →

Undermind

🟢No Code

AI research assistant that does deep, agentic literature searches across scientific papers, returning ranked, cited reports instead of raw link lists.

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AI Search tools

Exa

MCP
MCP Server
🔴Developer

Neural web search API and AI search engine built for LLM agents, with embedding-based retrieval and structured content extraction.

Key Features:

  • •Search API optimized for AI applications
  • •Neural and keyword search modes
  • •Content extraction, highlights, and answers

Free tier available; fetched pricing references request/page-based usage, including ranges such as $7, $12–15, and $0.025–$2.00 depending on API mode.

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Genspark

🟢No Code

AI-powered search engine that generates comprehensive Sparkpages — custom, ad-free research pages synthesized from multiple sources.

Key Features:

    Custom

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    Morphic

    MCP
    MCP Client
    🔴Developer

    Open-source AI answer engine with a generative UI — a self-hostable Perplexity alternative.

    Key Features:

      Free and open source (MIT). Costs are whatever you pay for LLM tokens and search API calls — can be near-zero with Ollama + SearXNG self-hosted. Morphic.sh hosted is free with rate limits.

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      Perplexity

      AI answer engine for web research with cited responses and follow-up questions.

      Key Features:

      • •Web-based AI answer engine.
      • •Citations for source checking.
      • •Useful for research summaries and current-topic exploration.

      $0 free tier; Pro is $20/month or $200/year; Max is $200/month or $2,000/year; Enterprise Pro is $40/month per seat or $400/year per seat; Enterprise Max is $325/month per seat or $3,250/year per seat.

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      Undermind

      🟢No Code

      AI research assistant that does deep, agentic literature searches across scientific papers, returning ranked, cited reports instead of raw link lists.

      Key Features:

        Custom

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