What do your agents use for web data? Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl war stories from production
Ok-Construction-7407 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A Reddit thread asks what people actually run in production for agent web data — Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, Serper, or custom scrapers — whether they're happy, and what they had to hack around it: retries, filtering, validation, and caching. Useful selection reference for agent engineering.
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