# Keirolabs — Blog

Citation-ready markdown for each post is available at the linked .md URL.

## Posts

- [What Is the Best API for Event Research in 2026?](/blogs/comparisons/what-is-the-best-api-for-event-research.md): Event research means finding conferences, speakers, sponsors, and attendees for sales, recruiting, and partnerships. Two flavors, seven APIs, one stack. Here is how ConfBase, PredictLeads, Keiro, Tavily, Exa, SerpAPI, and Eventbrite compare on data, price, and fit.
- [What Is the Best Web Scraping API for AI Agents in 2026?](/blogs/comparisons/what-is-the-best-web-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.md): Most teams asking for a scraping API do not need a scraper. They need clean content in their agent. A real comparison of Keiro, Firecrawl, Jina Reader, ScrapingBee, Browserless, Apify, Crawl4AI, and Bright Data for AI workflows, with the three workflows that decide which one you actually need, the anti-bot cost ladder, and the credit math that burns teams.
- [Search APIs for RAG in 2026: What to Look For, What It Costs, Who Scores What](/blogs/guide/search-api-for-rag.md): A RAG pipeline lives or dies on what the search API returns before the retriever ever runs. This guide covers the four properties that matter for retrieval-augmented generation, the benchmark evidence that chunk-and-retrieve collapses to ~19% while a search-content API holds 78% on FinanceBench, and the per-1K cost of a usable RAG query across eight vendors. Verified 2026-09-17.
- [Exa Search API Pricing 2026: Why 30 Results Cost $27, Not $7](/blogs/comparisons/exa-search-api-pricing-per-1000-requests-2026.md): Exa charges $7.00 per 1,000 requests for 10 results, and every result above 10 adds $1.00 per 1,000, so a realistic 30-result search costs $27.00 per 1,000, not $7.00.
- [Search API Cost per 1,000 Queries: The 2026 Price Table](/blogs/comparisons/search-api-cost-per-1000-queries-2026.md): The true cost of search APIs in 2026: Keirolabs at $0.25/1K semantic and $0.10/1K SERP is the cheapest, and the 36x gap to SerpAPI is the biggest mispricing in AI infrastructure.
- [MCP Search Servers in 2026: Add Web Search to Claude, Cursor & Agents](/blogs/guide/mcp-search-servers-2026-add-web-search-to-claude.md): MCP search servers give Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP agent live web search in minutes. Keyless scrapers are free but fragile; API-backed servers like Keirolabs (from $0.80/1K) win on reliability and legality.
- [Cheapest Web Search APIs (Aug 2026): the real cost per 1,000 queries](/blogs/comparisons/cheapest-web-search-apis-aug-2026.md): The cheapest web search APIs in August 2026, ranked by real cost per 1,000 queries. Keiro ~$1/1k search and ~$3/1k all-in via /search/content, Serper for raw SERP, Exa the biggest free tier.
- [Top Web Search APIs (Aug 2026): the 8 that matter, ranked](/blogs/comparisons/top-web-search-apis-aug-2026.md): An independent, numbers-driven ranking of 8 web search APIs for AI agents, cost per 1k, result quality, latency, MCP support, and why Keiro takes #1 on overall value. No vendor spin.
- [Best Web Search API for AI Agents (Aug 2026): 7 Providers Benchmarked](/blogs/guide/best-ai-search-apis-for-agents-aug-2026.md): Benchmark of 7 web search APIs on MCP, citations, bundled content, latency, and cost per 1k agent calls. Keiro wins for production agents: results + clean content + embeddings in one call, 78% FinanceBench, $0.80/1k.
- [Best Free Web Search API (Aug 2026), Free Tiers Compared Honestly](/blogs/guide/best-free-web-search-api-aug-2026.md): The honest 2026 free-tier math for web search APIs: real searches per month after credit conversion, the strings attached (Exa, Serper, Brave), and which free tier you can actually build a RAG agent on. No vendor spin.
- [Cheapest Web Scraping APIs (Aug 2026): Real Cost per 1,000 Pages](/blogs/guide/cheapest-web-scraping-apis-aug-2026.md): The real August 2026 cost per 1,000 pages across nine scraping and search-plus-extraction APIs, credit multipliers, the antibot cost ladder, concurrency, and the one-call vs two-call math that decides the bill.
- [Cheapest Web Search API for Agents in 2026 (August Pricing)](/blogs/guide/cheapest-web-search-api-for-agents-2026.md): The real cheapest web search API when your caller is an agent — not a human in a browser. Per-request prices from each provider's August 2026 pricing page, the token and extraction costs that hide inside an agent loop, cost per completed agent task, and the cheapest stacks for research, RAG, and deep-research agents. No vendor spin, just the math.
- [Cheapest Scraping APIs in 2026 (August Pricing)](/blogs/guide/cheapest-scraping-apis-2026.md): The real cheapest web scraping API at every volume, from a head-to-head benchmark of 16 providers run this year. Effective price per 1,000 successful pages, free tiers, JavaScript-rendering multipliers, and why the cheapest API is the one that actually succeeds on your target site. Every number from the pricing pages and the benchmark runs.
- [What Is the Best API for OSINT in 2026?](/blogs/comparisons/what-is-the-best-api-for-osint.md): OSINT is not one API, it is a stack. The foundation is finding what is public on the live web, and that is a search problem. Keiro does it at $0.80/1k (Startup) with 1,250 free credits a month and commercial use allowed. Then you bolt on specialists by axis: Shodan and Censys for infrastructure, SecurityTrails for DNS, HIBP for breaches, Nyne, Sixtyfour, and The Hog for people and companies. Proxycurl is gone. A real comparison with real prices, real mechanics, and a real investigation walkthrough.
- [Cheapest Web Search APIs for Developers in 2026](/blogs/guide/cheapest-web-search-apis-2026.md): The real cheapest web search API at every budget level. Free tier rankings, per-1k prices from each provider's pricing page, cost at scale for solo devs and startups, the hidden costs that make a cheap API expensive, and the cheapest hybrid stack. No vendor spin, just the math.
- [Best Web Scraping APIs for AI Agents in 2026: A Builder's Guide](/blogs/guide/best-web-scraping-apis-for-ai-agents-2026.md): A builder's guide to wiring web data into AI agents in 2026. The three agent scraping workflows, four production architecture patterns, real code for each, MCP wiring on the 2026-07-28 stateless spec, and the curated best-of by use case. Keiro, Firecrawl, Jina, ScrapingBee, Browserless, Apify, Crawl4AI, Bright Data.
- [Top 5 Exa Alternatives in 2026: Cheaper, Faster, Higher-Accuracy AI Search APIs](/blogs/comparisons/top-exa-alternatives.md): Exa pioneered keyword-free semantic search at $7/1k. Five alternatives, with the public QA benchmarks and 2026 pricing that show where Keiro, Tavily, Perplexity, Brave, and SerpAPI each win.
- [7 Best AI Search APIs in 2026, Ranked](/blogs/comparisons/best-ai-search-apis-2026.md): An opinionated #1 to #7 ranking of the seven AI search APIs that matter in 2026, with a verdict, the catch, and the price for each. Keiro leads the public QA benchmarks at $1/1k, so it is first. Here is why, and what each of the others is for.

## New in 2026

- [Web search APIs for AI agents in 2026: the buyer's guide](/blog/web-search-apis-for-agents-2026.md): Eleven APIs, one comparison: what an agent actually needs from search, what each provider costs per 1,000, and the benchmark numbers that break the ties.
- [The best Exa alternatives in 2026 (honest pricing included)](/blog/exa-alternatives-2026.md): Exa's $7/1k headline buys 10 results and bills $27/1k at depth 30. We priced eight real alternatives per 1,000 requests, with the fine print the landing pages leave out.
- [The best Tavily alternatives in 2026 (an honest comparison)](/blog/tavily-alternatives-2026.md): Tavily costs $8.00 per 1,000 basic searches and joined Nebius in February 2026. The alternatives beat it on price and, on the 2026 benchmarks, on quality too.
- [Search APIs cheaper than Tavily (2026)](/blog/search-apis-cheaper-than-tavily.md): Seven APIs beat Tavily's $8/1k pay-as-you-go, and Keirolabs is both the cheapest and the only one that tops AIMultiple's 2026 agentic search benchmark.
- [Google search APIs in 2026: the last official option dies January 1](/blog/google-search-apis-2026.md): Custom Search JSON API is closed and dies Jan 1, 2027. Vertex AI Search isn't a drop-in. The full map: scrapers, own-index APIs, real prices, and the lawsuit risk.
- [The best free web search APIs in 2026](/blog/best-free-web-search-apis-2026.md): Who actually gives search away in 2026: real free tiers, rate limits, and the card traps. Every number from the provider's own pricing page.
- [Exa Pricing 2026: API Cost per 1,000 Requests and Free Tier](/blog/exa-api-pricing-2026.md): Exa search is $7 per 1,000 requests with 10 results in, $27 per 1,000 at depth 30. Deep Search is $12 per 1,000 and Deep-Reasoning $15. The free tier is $20 at signup plus $10 in monthly credits, no card. Every official 2026 rate, checked against Exa's own pricing docs, including the Q2 change that moved search from $5 to $7 per 1,000.
- [Best Event Data API (2026): 7 Event APIs Compared and Priced](/blog/best-api-for-event-data.md): Seven routes into event data, priced from the vendors' own docs: Ticketmaster's free 5,000-calls-a-day Discovery API, SerpApi Google Events from $25/1k, Apify scrapers at $1 to $2 per 1,000 events, PredictHQ by contract, and Keiro /search/fast at $0.80 per 1,000 on Startup.
- [Best Search API for RAG (2026): 8 APIs Priced per 1,000](/blog/best-search-apis-for-rag.md): Eight search APIs priced per 1,000 RAG retrievals with page text included, from $0.08 to $16.00 per 1,000, with chunking math, SimpleQA scores, rate limits and the free tiers the landing pages blur.
- [The Cheapest Reliable Scraping API for AI Agents](/blog/cheapest-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.md): Nine services priced per 1,000 pages with the credit multipliers that decide the real bill: ScrapingBee, ScrapingAnt, ZenRows, ScraperAPI, Crawlbase, ScrapeOps, Firecrawl, Apify and Keirolabs, compared on price and on what survives anti-bot pages.
- [How Do Search APIs Compare on Cost per Query and Latency?](/blog/search-api-cost-per-query-latency.md): Keiro lite runs $0.25 per 1,000 queries, Parallel Turbo posts a 200 ms median, and Tavily charges $8 per 1,000 while claiming the fastest p50 in the market. Both tables, plus the effective-cost math (retries, expiring credits, monthly minimums) that pricing pages leave out.
- [Best OSINT APIs (2026): 10 OSINT and IP Intelligence APIs Priced](/blog/best-osint-apis.md): IPinfo Lite is free forever at country level. Shodan is $49 once, then $69 to $1,099 a month. MaxMind Insights bills $2.00 per 1,000. Ten OSINT APIs priced per 1,000 queries, with the free tiers and rate limits the landing pages leave out.
- [Parallel FindAll API Pricing: Base vs Core vs Pro](/blog/parallel-findall-api-pricing.md): FindAll bills a fixed cost per run plus a per-match fee: $0.10 to preview, $0.25 + $0.03 on Base, $2.00 + $0.15 on Core, $10.00 + $1.00 on Pro. We priced a 500-domain job at every tier, ran the per-1k math, and compared the alternatives.
- [Search API vs Scraping API for LLMs](/blog/search-api-vs-scraping-api-for-llms.md): Snippets scored 72.4% on our 1,000-question SimpleQA run; full pages reached 87.7%. We priced the search layer and the scraping layer per 1,000, modeled pure-search, pure-scrape and hybrid pipelines per 100k tasks, and shipped the hybrid pipeline code.
- [Clean Architecture for Agents That Need Browser + Scraping APIs](/blog/clean-architecture-agents-browser-scraping.md): Search to discover, extraction to read, a browser for the pages that fight back. The three-layer agent stack with a routing rule, a working TypeScript router, and the prices that make the case: $0.25 per 1,000 searches, 3 credits a page, $0.08 to $0.12 a browser hour.
- [AI Search API Pricing Compared (2026): The True Cost per 1K Queries](/blog/ai-search-api-pricing-compared.md): An independent, computed comparison of what eight AI search APIs actually cost per 1,000 queries in 2026. Real per-1k prices from each provider's pricing page, per-operation credit math, cost at five volumes, the six hidden layers on top of the headline, and the true cost of ownership. No vendor spin.
- [What Type of Search API Do You Need? (2026 Comparison by Category)](/blog/top-8-ai-search-apis-compared-2026.md): An independent, vendor-neutral comparison of 8 AI search APIs organized by category, not by rank. A decision tree, a glossary of API types, a published benchmark protocol, where Keiro loses, and source links on every claim. No vendor spin.
- [Brave Search API Pricing 2026: The True Cost per 1,000 Requests](/blog/brave-search-api-pricing-2026.md): Brave Search API costs $5.00 per 1,000 requests in 2026 with $5 in monthly free credits, but the true cost of a query your agent can use runs from $0.10 (Keirolabs) to $8 (Tavily).
- [Fastest Web Search API for AI Agents: 2026 Latency Benchmark](/blog/fastest-web-search-api-for-ai-agents-2026.md): Serper is the fastest raw SERP feed at sub-100ms, but Keirolabs /search/fast at ~487ms is the fastest API that returns clean content in one call.
- [Parallel Search API Pricing 2026: $1.00 per 1,000 Requests](/blog/parallel-search-api-pricing-2026.md): Parallel Search API costs $1.00 per 1,000 requests on Turbo mode in 2026, 5x cheaper than Perplexity's flat $5.00/1K at ~200ms latency, with 5,000 free requests a month plus $5 in credits.
- [SerpAPI Alternatives 2026: 6 Options Priced per 1,000 Searches](/blog/serpapi-alternatives.md): SerpAPI charges $15/1K on its starter band and carries the December 2025 Google DMCA lawsuit into every procurement review. Six alternatives priced against it: Keirolabs SERP at $0.10/1K, Serper at $0.30/1K, and the agent-ready APIs that replace the fetch-and-parse step SerpAPI leaves to you.
- [Tavily Search API Pricing per 1,000 Requests 2026: The $8/1K Truth](/blog/tavily-search-api-pricing-per-1000-requests-2026.md): Tavily Search API costs $8.00 per 1,000 basic searches at pay-as-you-go in 2026, the most expensive agent-ready search API in the market; the $5/1K figure only exists behind a $500/month commitment.
- [Exa vs Tavily (2026): $7/1K vs $8/1K, and Which to Choose](/blog/exa-vs-tavily.md): Exa and Tavily solve different problems at similar-looking prices. Exa at $7/1K base (plus $1/1K per extra result block and a separate Contents meter) does keyword-free semantic retrieval Tavily cannot; Tavily at $8/1K PAYG does agent-native keyword search with a credit ladder. The bill shapes differ more than the headlines.
- [Deep Research APIs in 2026: Turnkey vs Build-Your-Own](/blog/deep-research-apis-2026-turnkey-vs-build-your-own.md): Deep research APIs split in 2026: turnkey costs $2–7/task or $5/1K searches; a build-your-own loop on Keirolabs runs $25–100 per 1,000 queries.
- [What Is the Best API for News Aggregation in 2026?](/blog/what-is-the-best-api-for-news-aggregation.md): Most news APIs sell yesterday's licensed headlines as a monthly subscription, and the price is a cliff. NewsAPI.org jumps from a localhost-only free tier straight to $449/mo with no plan in between. If you want what is happening NOW, you want a fast web index. A real comparison of Keiro, GDELT, NewsData, Perigon, NewsAPI, Mediastack, and Currents.
- [Best APIs for Live Financial Data in 2026 (August Update)](/blog/best-apis-for-live-financial-data-2026.md): The market-data API landscape after Polygon rebranded to Massive, IEX Cloud shut down, and AI agents started reading the tape. Real-time vs delayed vs EOD, free tiers, WebSocket support, and the MCP-ready providers worth your time, priced out from each vendor's August 2026 page.
- [Exploring the GLM API: Models, Pricing, and Agent Builds](/blog/exploring-glm-api.md): A developer's tour of Zhipu's GLM API on Z.ai in 2026, the full model lineup from free GLM-4.7-Flash to flagship GLM-5.2, per-token pricing, native function calling, thinking modes, MCP integration, and what actually changes for agent developers building on an open-weight model from China.
- [MCP and Web Search: A Deep Guide to Building Search Tools for AI Agents (2026)](/blog/mcp-model-context-protocol-web-search-2026-guide.md): Model Context Protocol lets an agent call your web-search tools without bespoke integration code. A deep, current guide to MCP, the 2026-07-28 stateless spec, and a real runnable Keiro MCP server in Python and TypeScript.
- [Search API Benchmarks That Actually Matter: FinanceBench, SimpleQA, BrowseComp](/blog/search-api-benchmarks-that-matter-2026-financebench-simpleqa.md): FinanceBench, SimpleQA, and BrowseComp test what agents actually do: retrieve, cite, and answer. Keirolabs scores 78% on FinanceBench and 84% on SimpleQA.
- [The Search API Crackdown: SerpAPI's Lawsuit, Bing's Shutdown & SearchGuard](/blog/search-api-crackdown-2026-serpapi-lawsuit-bing-shutdown.md): SearchGuard, the Bing Search API shutdown, and Google v. SerpAPI ended the era of scraping Google at scale. Independent indexes are the only safe bet for agents in 2026.