Artificial Analysis launches Search Index benchmarking 26 Search APIs for AI agents
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-30
Artificial Analysis released the Search Index, benchmarking performance, cost, and latency of Search APIs for AI agents.
- Covers 26 Search API products from 14 providers across 1,700 tasks and three search benchmarks: BrowseComp, DeepSearchQA, and AA-Omniscience, all run with the same base model and harness
- Exa (auto) and Perplexity (medium) currently lead, with their best models scoring 80
- The authors predict agents will search the web far more than humans by year-end
- Stirrup, the open-source agent harness used for all Search API rows, is also available; providers can request inclusion
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