# 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.
- [What Type of Search API Do You Need? (2026 Comparison by Category)](/blogs/comparisons/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.
- [MCP and Web Search: A Deep Guide to Building Search Tools for AI Agents (2026)](/blogs/guide/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.
- [AI Search API Pricing Compared (2026): The True Cost per 1K Queries](/blogs/comparisons/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 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 $1/1k with 500 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.
- [What Is the Best API for News Aggregation in 2026?](/blogs/comparisons/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 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.