Keenable.ai
Web search API for AI agents with 100B+ documents and sub-250ms p95 latency.
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What is Keenable.ai?
Keenable is a web search infrastructure platform for AI agents and labs, indexing 100B+ documents with <250ms latency. It provides a Search API and other products designed for AI scale, enabling agents to access real-time web information at production scale.
Keenable.ai pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Agent Builder Tier: $4/1000 requests (pay-as-you-go); Frontier Tier: dedicated capacity pricing available on request; 100K free requests on signup
Keenable.ai pros
- Massive scale: 100B+ documents indexed with sub-250ms p95 latency
- Superior quality-to-cost ratio: benchmarked as top performer vs Serper, Perplexity, Exa, Tavily, and Parallel
- Ready-to-use integration: MCP (Model Context Protocol) support and straightforward API with search_web_pages and fetch_page_content tools
- Battle-tested team: founders from Yandex (search/ads) and Amazon AGI (web grounding infrastructure)
Keenable.ai cons
- Limited pricing transparency: Frontier tier details (for AI labs) are not publicly detailed; Agent Builder tier is higher cost at $4/1K queries
- Product details incomplete: the second product offering is not clearly described in available content
- Dependency on external service: as an infrastructure service, availability and rate limits depend on provider capacity
Frequently asked questions about Keenable.ai
What APIs does Keenable provide?
Keenable provides a Search API at https://api.keenable.ai/mcp with tools including search_web_pages (9 params) and fetch_page_content (4 params), supporting MCP-compatible agents.
How does Keenable's performance compare to other search providers?
According to Keenable's NEEDLE benchmark, it ranks highest in result quality per dollar cost compared to Serper, Parallel-turbo, Perplexity, Exa, and Tavily.
Who is using Keenable?
Keenable is in production at several AI labs and inference providers, backed by $26M in funding from Accel, Conviction, and angels from Google, xAI, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Hugging Face.
What latency should I expect?
Keenable targets <250ms p95 latency for queries from US East.