20 AI search tools with SOC 2. 13 have a free plan. Half of the paid plans start at $20 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 | Rating | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google LensGoogle's AI-powered visual search tool that identifies objects, translates text in 100+ languages, matches products against the Shopping Graph, and provides homework help. Free on Android, iOS, and Chrome, with a Windows desktop app that launched in 2026. | Free | Yes | Web · iOS · Android · Windows | 4.4 | 28 Oct |
| Perplexity AIPerplexity AI answers from the live web with numbered citations and lets paid users pick among models from 6 AI labs; a limited free plan exists. | $17/mo | Yes | Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Windows | 4.4 | 22 Oct |
| GleanEnterprise AI search platform at $300M ARR in 2026, connecting 100+ apps with permissions-aware results, AI agents, and MCP support from ~$50/user/month. | $50/mo | No | Web · iOS · Android | 4.2 | 3 Sep |
| BingMicrosoft's AI-powered search engine with Copilot integration, multi-turn search, and enterprise capabilities. Free consumer search; Copilot Search powered by OpenAI's Prometheus model. Enterprise Bing Chat is also available for teams. | $5/mo | Yes | Web · iOS · Android · Windows | 4.0 | 19 Aug |
| 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 | 4.0 | 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 | 3.9 | 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 | 3.6 | 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 | 3.6 | 11 Nov |
| SanaEnterprise AI platform from Sana Labs, now part of Workday, that finds answers across your company's apps and carries out tasks inside them. | Quote | No | Web · iOS | 3.5 | 28 Oct |
| PalmataPalmata is Contentful's AEO platform: a research agent that investigates why AI answer engines describe a brand as they do and recommends content changes, sold as a free one-time sample plus quote-only Enterprise. | -- | Yes | Web | 3.1 | 6 Nov |
| BluefishEnterprise platform that monitors a brand across major AI models, plans fixes and measures results. Quote-only pricing, SOC 2 Type II listed. | Quote | No | Web | -- | 19 Oct |
| 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 |
| LinerLiner is a Korean AI search and research assistant with line-by-line citations, 14 million registered users and a free plan. | $17.99/mo | Yes | Web | -- | 8 Oct |
| NEURONwriterAI-powered SEO content optimization platform combining semantic SEO with AI writing capabilities | $23/mo | Trial | Web | -- | 3 Sep |
| ProfoundEnterprise AI search visibility platform that tracks brand mentions in up to nine answer engines and adds agents to act on the gaps. | -- | -- | Web | -- | 19 Oct |
| SecodaAI data catalog that answers plain-English questions across your Snowflake, dbt, and BI stack, rated 4.5/5 on G2 across 55 reviews. | Quote | No | Web | -- | 23 Sep |
| Sprinklr LLM InsightsSprinklr LLM Insights tracks brand visibility, sentiment and recommendations across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, built from real customer conversations, launched June 2026. | Quote | No | Web · iOS · Android | -- | 19 Aug |
| 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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