Web Search API Leaderboard: Quality, Latency, and Cost per Useful Result

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Rank<br>Provider<br>Composite<br>Recall@10<br>Cost<br>Latency p50<br>Field note

Jina<br>7.96/10<br>0.62<br>$0.00032 / useful result<br>1.0 s<br>First across all three query classes.

Serper<br>7.79/10<br>0.62<br>$0.00048 / useful result<br>816 ms

You.com<br>7.6/10<br>0.61<br>$0.0082 / useful result<br>566 ms

SerpApi<br>7.42/10<br>0.59<br>$0.015 / useful result<br>181 ms

Brave Search<br>7.31/10<br>0.62<br>$0.0081 / useful result<br>470 ms

Exa<br>6.9/10<br>0.59<br>$0.014 / useful result<br>1.1 s

Parallel<br>6.77/10<br>0.59<br>$0.0068 / useful result<br>2.2 s

Tavily<br>6.63/10<br>0.55<br>$0.015 / useful result<br>1.9 s

SearchAPI.io<br>6.27/10<br>0.58<br>$0.0069 / useful result<br>2.9 s

10<br>DataForSEO<br>5.86/10<br>0.59<br>$0.0034 / useful result<br>9.9 s

11<br>Linkup<br>4.86/10<br>0.24<br>$0.021 / useful result<br>2.8 s

Low scores are published alongside high ones — a ranking you can only trust if nothing gets hidden. The gateway's fee sits on top-ups, not per call, so the order above earns us nothing either way.

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