← All leaderboards
Exa
What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok actually say · July 2026
The verdict
Exa appears in 1 AI-ranked category — best position #3 for web search and scraping api for ai agents.
GPT #2Claude #3Gemini #2Grok #2
Strongest AI-native search/retrieval engine: semantic web search, fast and deep modes, token-efficient highlights, structured outputs, strong research/company/people/news indexes, and good agent integrations
What would move Exa up
- GPT Add more robust first-class crawling, unblocking, and dynamic-site scraping so it is not mainly a search layer
- Claude Its own index is smaller than Google/Bing's, so recall on breaking news and obscure keyword lookups suffers; broader, fresher coverage would move it up
- Gemini Improve accuracy and filtering when handling traditional exact-match keyword or technical string queries.
- Grok Broaden index coverage and result diversity for more commercial, news, and general web content beyond research-focused domains.
Top alternatives per the models: Firecrawl · Tavily · Brave Search API · Bright Data
Rankings are computed from what the models answer, re-polled continuously · raw reasoning shown verbatim · methodology