Search & fetch APIs for AI agents: latency, cost, free tiers
MarkTechPost surveyed web-retrieval tools for AI agents—TinyFish, Tavily, Firecrawl—ranked by latency, token efficiency, and free-tier limits.
• Latency under 1s vs. 5–10s trade-offs for different use cases
• Token cost per query (raw HTML vs. cleaned text)
• Free tier: requests per month, rate limits, data retention