AI Tool Alternatives 2026: Real Prices, Read From Vendor Pages
Each comparison below starts from the vendor’s own pricing page, opened on 29 October 2026 with no account signed in. Prices are copied in the vendor’s units, converted per 1,000 units with the arithmetic shown, and captured in a dated screenshot you can check yourself.
Published comparisons
3 pages • checked 29 October 2026
Tavily Alternatives: Five Search APIs Compared on Published Prices
Five Tavily alternatives priced from vendor pages: Exa, Brave, Perplexity Search, Serper and Firecrawl, with per-1,000-query costs and sources.
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Perplexity API Alternatives: Retrieval and Answer Costs Compared
Perplexity API alternatives compared on published prices: Tavily, Exa, Brave, OpenAI web search and Serper, with retrieval and answer costs split out.
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Cohere Alternatives: Embedding, Rerank and Language Model Prices
Cohere alternatives compared on published prices: Voyage AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, AI21 and Perplexity embeddings, with per-million-token costs and sources.
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- Arithmetic is shown, not assumed. Where a vendor bills in credits or hours, the per-1,000 conversion is written out. Nothing assumes one credit equals one search.
- No benchmarks are invented. No latency, accuracy or uptime figure on these pages comes from our own testing, and we say so. If a vendor does not publish a number, the page states that instead of filling the gap.
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