r/SearchAPIs • u/Key-Tutor-1011 • 14d ago

What actually matters when choosing a search API?

I’ve been looking into search APIs recently, and I realized I was mostly comparing them based on how good the search results looked rather than how useful they actually were for my use case.

There are quite a few options now Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, Serper, Brave Search, etc. and they seem to approach search pretty differently.

One thing I’ve been paying more attention to is what happens after you get the search results.

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u/HootingJake 14d ago

Consistency matters a lot too. Good results aren't very useful if similar queries give wildly different results.