Exa Alternative
The Full-Extraction Alternative to Exa
Get complete page content for your AI agents. Not just search results — full data extraction from any URL.
- Full content extraction — not just snippets
- Any URL — not limited to indexed results
- Anti-bot bypass for protected sites
Why Teams Switch from Exa
Full page content
AlterLab extracts complete page content — HTML, markdown, structured data. Not limited to search result snippets or cached content.
Any URL, any time
AlterLab scrapes URLs in real-time. No waiting for indexing, no reliance on cached versions. Get live data from any accessible page.
Protected site access
AlterLab's 5-tier anti-bot bypass accesses content that search APIs cannot reach. Dynamic content, login-gated pages, JavaScript-heavy SPAs.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | AlterLab | Exa |
|---|---|---|
| Full page content extraction | Snippets | |
| Real-time (live) data | Indexed/cached | |
| Anti-bot bypass | 5 tiers | |
| Any URL on demand | Indexed only | |
| JavaScript rendering | ||
| Semantic search | ||
| Neural search ranking | ||
| Structured extraction | Basic | |
| MCP server for AI agents | ||
| Pay-as-you-go |
Migration Takes Minutes
Estimated time: 10 minutes
from exa_py import Exa
exa = Exa("YOUR_API_KEY")
results = exa.search_and_contents(
"web scraping best practices",
type="neural",
num_results=5
)import requests
# Extract full content from specific URLs
response = requests.post(
"https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape",
headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_KEY"},
json={
"url": "https://specific-page.com/article",
"format": "markdown" # LLM-ready output
}
)Frequently Asked Questions
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Pricing
From $0.0002/request. No subscriptions. Balance never expires.
Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.
$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.
Just a POST request.
No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires