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

1

Full page content

AlterLab extracts complete page content — HTML, markdown, structured data. Not limited to search result snippets or cached content.

2

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.

3

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

FeatureAlterLabExa
Full page content extractionSnippets
Real-time (live) dataIndexed/cached
Anti-bot bypass5 tiers
Any URL on demandIndexed only
JavaScript rendering
Semantic search
Neural search ranking
Structured extractionBasic
MCP server for AI agents
Pay-as-you-go

Migration Takes Minutes

Estimated time: 10 minutes

Exa
from exa_py import Exa

exa = Exa("YOUR_API_KEY")
results = exa.search_and_contents(
    "web scraping best practices",
    type="neural",
    num_results=5
)
AlterLab
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

Is AlterLab a search engine like Exa?

No. AlterLab is a data extraction API — you provide specific URLs and it extracts content. Exa is a search API that finds relevant pages. They complement each other: use Exa to find URLs, then AlterLab to extract full content.

Can AlterLab provide data for AI agents?

Yes. AlterLab provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server specifically for AI agent workflows. Agents can scrape, extract, and process web data through a standardized interface.

Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.

$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.Just a POST request.

terminal
curl -X POST https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}'

No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires