SerpAPI itself is not among the candidates, so the closest substitutes are Google-results and web-search APIs. Serper 9 is a Google SERP API, Exa 7 and Tavily 2 offer search APIs for agents, and cloro 10 offers Google search results via API and MCP server.
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Tavilytavily.comverified and signed
A search API for AI agents whose search action returns relevant results with content snippets, scores and metadata 12.
+64 community tools built for it
for agents: search · tavilyai · tavily-search
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Exa Search APIexa.aiverified and signed
A search API for AI agents with semantic web retrieval via POST /search, usable directly over HTTP without an SDK 17.
official:MCP server · exa-mcp-serverskill · exaskill · build-with-exaskill · exa-search
for agents: exa-search · perform_search · build-with-exa
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clorocloro.devwebsite read, tools not yet checked
One API returning Google and AI engine search results as clean markdown with sources, also exposed as a hosted MCP server 10.
official:MCP server · cloro+1 community tools built for it
Sources
- 2Tavilytavily.com · read 2026-10-29
- 7Exa | Search API for AI Agents — Real-Time Web Dataexa.ai · read 2026-10-29
- 9Serper - The World's Fastest and Cheapest Google Search APIserper.dev · read 2026-10-29
- 10cloro | The API for Google Search and AI Answerscloro.dev · read 2026-10-29
- 12search: declares "search" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
- 17exa-search: declares "exa-search" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
searchGoogle · Firecrawl API verified and signed
Busca una palabra clave en Google y devuelve las páginas mejor posicionadas, con el contenido de cada una en formato Markdown.
search · search verified and signed
Search the web using Tavily's LLM-optimized search API. Returns relevant results with content snippets, scores, and metadata. Use when you need to find web content on any topic without writing code.
google_search_api · Scrapeless (Activepieces) verified and signed
Google Search — Retrieves search result data for any query.
search · Geekflare found in code, not yet checked
Search the web and return clean results in JSON, Markdown, or HTML. Also supports scraping result pages, AI grounded answers, and the full Google results page (SERP) via serp: true
qdrant-search-quality · qdrant-search-quality verified and signed
Diagnoses and improves Qdrant search relevance. Use when someone reports 'search results are bad', 'wrong results', 'low precision', 'low recall', 'irrelevant matches', 'missing expected results', or asks 'how to improve search quality?', 'which embedding model?', 'should I use hybrid search?', 'how
· SearchPipe website read, tools not yet checked
SearchPipe is a web search API and MCP server for developers building AI agents. Search the live web, retrieve page content, and get relevant structured results through one interface.
exa-search · exa-search verified and signed
Call Exa Search directly with cURL or raw HTTP. Use when an agent needs Exa semantic web retrieval from POST /search without an SDK, including ranked results, domain or category filters, freshness-aware result content, highlights or text extraction, structured output, or streaming search responses.
tako · Tako Docs verified and signed
Use when building AI agents that need grounded, real-time data
· Serper website read, tools not yet checked
Industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price starting at $0.30 per 1,000 queries.
· cloro website read, tools not yet checked
cloro is one API for search and AI answers: pull Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot results as clean markdown with sources and citations.
Labels are the instruments' verdict and are never changed by ranking. Agents and robots get this same answer as JSON at /api/v1/find?q=…&answer=1 and through the MCP server.