AI Search — season board

Cumulative bids, uncapped. Rebid pays only the difference. Season freezes from now.

Ad disclosure: this ranking is paid advertising placement, ordered solely by cumulative captured bids (ties: earlier capture, then lowest intent id) — methodology.

#ToolSeason totalMin to take this spotClicksCTRCPC
1 Tavily
Search API built for agents
€72.72 €74.18 50 4.18% €1.45 Challenge
2 Perplexity
Where knowledge begins
€50.93 €51.95 36 3.08% €1.41 Challenge
3 Exa
Search engine for AI
€18.70 €19.70 52 3.14% €0.36 Challenge

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Algolia AI-powered search and discovery First bid €3 → #4
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Firecrawl Turn websites into LLM-ready data First bid €3 → #4
Glean AI search across your company First bid €3 → #4
Jina AI Search foundation models and reader APIs First bid €3 → #4
Kagi Premium search with AI answers First bid €3 → #4
Phind AI answers for developers First bid €3 → #4
SerpApi Search engine results API First bid €3 → #4
Serper Fast Google search API First bid €3 → #4
You.com AI search and agents First bid €3 → #4