8 AI search and retrieval infrastructure with SOC 2. All have a free plan. Half of the paid plans start at $30 a month or less. 5 are open source. Newest check: 12 Nov 2026.
268 of 721 tools were checked against the vendor's own page in the last 30 days.
| Tool | Price from | Free plan | Runs on | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExaSearch API that ranks the web by meaning for AI agents and retrieval pipelines, with Lite, Auto and Deep search modes, an asynchronous research Agent and an official MCP server. A free Starter plan with monthly credits needs no payment method. | $49/mo | Yes | Web | 12 Nov |
| ReductoAgentic document platform that parses, extracts and splits PDFs, scans and spreadsheets for AI teams; its About page cites more than 5 billion pages processed. | -- | Yes | Web | 12 Nov |
| LanceDBOpen-source embedded retrieval library with a distributed Enterprise lakehouse on the same Lance format; its GitHub repository shows 11.9k stars. | -- | Yes | Web | 12 Nov |
| Mem0Memory layer for AI agents: an Apache-2.0 SDK, a managed Platform and an MCP server, with a free plan and 68.8k GitHub stars. | -- | Yes | Web | 11 Nov |
| BrowserbaseHosted headless browsers for AI agents, with a free plan of 3 concurrent sessions, session replays and the open source Stagehand SDK. | $20/mo | Yes | Web | 4 Oct |
| DeeplakeActiveloop's open-source GPU database for AI agents: Postgres interface, multimodal data lake, SOC 2 Type II certified, Apache-licensed core. | $99/mo | Yes | Web · Mac · Windows | 8 Oct |
| FirecrawlWeb data API for AI agents: search, scrape, crawl and interact, returning LLM-ready Markdown. Open source core with a free plan and an MCP server. | $16/mo | Yes | Web | 3 Oct |
| TavilyFive-endpoint web access API for AI agents: search, extract, map, crawl and research, with a free plan and a keyless trial mode. | $30/mo | Yes | Web | 3 Oct |
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