I tested SerpAPI, Serper, Google Custom Search, Tavily, Exa, and Brave for my AI agents — then deleted five of them. Brave wasn't the cheapest. It was the only one that owned its index, treated privacy as an engineering constraint, and shipped an AI-native LLM Context API. Here's the three-axis test
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I tested SerpAPI, Serper, Google Custom Search, Tavily, Exa, and Brave for my AI agents — then deleted five of them. Brave wasn't the cheapest. It was the only one that owned its index, treated privacy as an engineering constraint, and shipped an AI-native LLM Context API. Here's the three-axis test
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