AI search engines
81 AI search engines in one list: the established products, and every new one as it launches.
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New AI search engines per month
18 apps launched in the last 12 months, by month.
81 AI search engines in one list: the established products, and every new one as it launches.
Updated
18 apps launched in the last 12 months, by month.
The apps we added to this market most recently.
| # | App | Added |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  ReSO AI ReSO is a generative engine optimization platform that helps brands show up in AI search results. It’s built for founders, CMOs, and growth teams who want to turn buyer intent in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AIO into visibility, citations, and traffic. What makes it different is that it doesn’t just track rankings, it analyzes intent, competitors, content gaps, and technical issues, then turns them into priority actions to improve AI recommendations. | |
| 2 |  Qurify Qurify is a revolutionary AI-powered internal search engine designed to transform user experience on content-heavy websites. Traditional keyword-based site search often frustrates users with irrelevan | |
| 3 |  Tavily Tavily is the real-time search engine for AI agents and RAG workflows. | |
| 4 |  Typesense Typesense is an open-source search engine for fast, typo-tolerant site and app search, with simple APIs, vector search, and self-hosting. | |
| 5 | Perplexity Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question. | |
| 6 |  Meilisearch Build lightning-fast search and AI retrieval with Meilisearch. Open-source, developer-friendly search engine trusted by 20,000+ teams worldwide. | |
| 7 | Exa AI search engine with website crawler, search API, SERP API, and deep research API. Built for querying, crawling, and extracting structured web data. | |
| 8 | Cohere Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights. | |
| 9 |  AI Supermarket Discover, compare, and choose the best AI tools for any task | |
| 10 |  Andi Andi represents a leap forward in search technology, harnessing the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence to transform how we find information online. Unlike traditional search engines that return a list of links, Andi provides direct answers to queries, akin to conversing with a knowledgeable companion. It's tailored for users who value immediacy and precision in their information gathering process. | |
| 11 |  Proparlab Proparlab is an AI Search Visibility and Generative Engine Optimization analytics platform designed to help businesses measure their presence across generative search. It tracks brand visibility, AI | |
| 12 |  Reference Reference is local semantic search for your files and code, built for AI agents. No cloud, nothing leaves your machine. Ask it "how did I implement rate limiting here" and get your actual code back, cited down to the exact function, not generic advice. Live index that updates as you save, code-aware chunking (tree-sitter), and a built-in MCP server (/search, /explain, /find_similar, /check_doc_drift)so Claude Code gets precise cited results instead of burning tokens on grep loops. |
The products every new one is compared with.
| App | Launched | Monthly visits | Store ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| * | 26,293 | - | |
| * | 170,774 | - | |
| * | 17,271 | - | |
| * | 4,357,982 | 509,014 | |
| * | 8,598 | - | |
| * | 2,436 | - |
* Launch date estimated.
Grouped by what each app says it does. 63 of 81 apps fit a group so far.
| Type | Apps | Share | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI search engines | 26 | 41.3% | 360AI搜索-生成式AI答案引擎, AI DeepSearch & Search Engine, AI Search 4o |
| AI tools directories | 10 | 15.9% | AI Agents Marketplace, AI Supermarket, AppIndex |
| Developer search infrastructure | 10 | 15.9% | Cohere, Exa, Indexical |
| Vertical and enterprise search | 8 | 12.7% | FindThem, Jumper, Lessie AI |
| AI search visibility | 5 | 7.9% | Alchemist AI, CabbageSEO, Proparlab |
| Research and trends search | 3 | 4.8% | Last24.ai, TrendWidget, WolframAlpha |
| Search utilities | 1 | 1.6% | &udm=14 |
What we could detect on their websites.
| Framework | Apps | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 28 | 82.4% |
Of 34 apps whose framework we could detect.
| Host | Apps | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 23 | 100.0% |
Of 23 apps whose host we could detect.
How many of the 81 apps show a price, and how many sell to large companies.
| Measure | Apps | Share of 81 |
|---|---|---|
| Publish a pricing page | 19 | 23.5% |
| Offer an enterprise plan | 7 | 8.6% |
“ai search engine” is searched 12,100 times a month on Google in the US. These are the searches around it.
| Search | Per month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| perplexity ai search engine | 9,900 | $8.03 |
| ai google mode | 3,600 | $8.05 |
| apps similar to chatgpt for free | 1,600 | $3.74 |
| try google ai mode | 1,300 | $7.42 |
| ai search engine free | 880 | $3.27 |
| google ai mode deep search | 880 | $5.84 |
| ai seo optimization | 720 | $45.80 |
| komo ai | 720 | $17.47 |
| ai like chatgpt with no restrictions | 590 | $5.75 |
| chatgpt alternative with image upload | 480 | $6.07 |
| free chatgpt alternative with image upload | 390 | $3.56 |
| ai search mode | 320 | $5.53 |
| ai search engine list | 140 | $3.89 |
| google ai search results | 110 | $8.89 |
| ai search engine like chatgpt | 90 | $4.71 |
Cost per click is what advertisers bid for one visit from that search. Figures from Oct 2026.
An AI search engine takes a question or keywords and turns them into a structured intent. It cleans and expands the query, then creates vector representations so the system can find meaningfully similar content even when words do not match.
Behind the scenes, a crawler and indexer collect pages, documents, and data. Some systems pull fresh results from the web in real time, while others index your own site or app content. Hybrid retrieval combines keyword matching with vector search, then a re-ranker orders the most relevant items.
A language model reads the top results and drafts an answer in plain language. The engine includes citations or links so you can verify sources, and often shows follow-up questions to refine the task. Tools like Perplexity focus on concise answers with sources, while Andi aims for conversational discovery.
For agents and retrieval-augmented generation, connectors and real-time search APIs feed current information into prompts. Tavily and Exa provide APIs for querying, crawling, and structured extraction that downstream systems can automate.
When search is embedded inside a product, developers index their own data and tune relevance. Engines like Typesense and Meilisearch offer typo tolerance, filters, and vector search to power fast in-app results. For computational questions, WolframAlpha evaluates formulas and curated knowledge to produce step-by-step outputs.
Feedback loops close the gap between user intent and results. Clicks, ratings, and prompt tweaks train the system to improve. Tools such as Jina help refine prompts and templates so the engine returns better answers with fewer iterations.
Vendors mix usage, seats, and data size, often with a free tier for testing and enterprise options for compliance and support.
| Pricing model | How it works |
|---|---|
| Per seat | Each person with an account adds to the bill. |
| Per request or credits | Each query, API call, or generated answer consumes metered usage. |
| By indexed data | Charges scale with document count or index size under management. |
| By capacity | Self‑hosted or managed clusters priced by nodes, throughput, or regions. |
| Tiered subscription | Feature bundles with caps on queries, data sources, and integrations. |
| Enterprise contract | Custom limits, SLAs, and governance for large organizations. |