AI ranking change · 2026-07-14
Firecrawl overtakes Exa as ChatGPT's #1 pick
for web search and scraping api for ai agents
Exa→Firecrawl
On 2026-07-14, ChatGPT changed its #1 recommendation for best web search and scraping api for ai agents — dropping Exa from the top spot in favor of Firecrawl. The previous #1 had held since 2026-07-13.
“Best overall blend of search, crawling, JavaScript rendering, interaction, clean Markdown, structured JSON extraction, and agent-ready APIs; near-tied with Tavily, but stronger when agents must go beyond discovery and reliably operate on pages.”— ChatGPT
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