#Building my agent for deep competitor research.

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wise magnet
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Initially relied heavily on Tavily, liked it, but as soon as traffic hit, the bills just went to the moon. Started looking for alternatives. SerpAPI turned out to be just a reseller (expensive and crazy latency), Bing API moved to Azure and became some overcomplicated corporate thing. Eventually decided to test Search Router API, their search and extracted content delivery work out of the box, and for prod volumes you can request custom rates from sales

If lowering web search costs is relevant for anyone's projects - this option turned out to be pretty good. By the way, it searches really well across European and other non-English segments, might be useful

half lynx
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Do they do the search and extract the content themselves? I'm currently paying SerpAPI 25 bucks and I still have to write my own parser for the links they return 💀 What's the latency like? And are there limits for new users?

wise magnet
# half lynx Do they do the search and extract the content themselves? I'm currently paying S...

Yeah, I was surprised too. Regarding latency - it runs pretty fast and stable in prod, obvs critical for RAG. As for limits, they don't choke you at the start: you sign up without linking a card and immediately get test credits

But the main reason I even picked them up is the Retrieved Context endpoint. The API tries to parse the page itself and return a summary. If it doesn't break in the long run, we might be able to throw out some of our custom parsers.

half lynx