Exa Search and Research APIs vs Linkup API: what AI actually recommends
The same buying questions, run after run, to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity: the record of which of these two they name first. No opinions, no scores we invented: what the models said.
AI currently favors Linkup API. Ahead in 1 of 1 shared category on consensus rank.
That is the latest close, not a verdict for all time. The model-by-model board below shows where they agree, where they split, and how both brands moved.
At the latest close, Exa Search and Research APIs leads 0 and Linkup API leads 1 across the 1 category they both appear in.
Beyond this pairing, Exa Search and Research APIs is ranked in 1 category; Linkup API is ranked in 1 category and sits at #1 in 1. The board below is the shared slice, where the four models place these two side by side.
The record, category by category.
Consensus rank · latest close- #1Linkup APINew entry at the last closespread 10GPT#1
- #6Exa Search and Research APIsNew entry at the last closespread 10GPT#3
On consensus rank, Linkup API leads here, #1 to Exa Search and Research APIs's #6. 25 to 18 on the 0-100 score. Every model that separates the two ranks Linkup API ahead. Linkup API is new to the board at this close.
Where the models split.
Across the 1 category Exa Search and Research APIs and Linkup API both appear in, the models never break ranks: in each one, the same brand leads on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity alike.
No model runs against the grain here: each of the four ranks Linkup API ahead at least as often as not, with ChatGPT the most lopsided.
- ChatGPTfavors Linkup API 1-0
- Claudesplit 0-0
- Geminisplit 0-0
- Perplexitysplit 0-0