Andi AI Search vs Komo Search vs Perplexity AI vs You.com
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Andi AI Search
Free, ad-free conversational search, plus a search API for AI agents
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Komo Search
AI search engine that answers with sources — back after a year of pivo...
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Perplexity AI
Answer engine that cites its sources, now with a browser and an agent
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You.com
Web search, answer and research APIs built for AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.5 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Search app free with no account: unlimited searches, read, summarise and explain, AI text generation. The API starts with free credit | 25 credits a day, free with a sign-in (no card) | Free plan: answers with citations and basic AI models, for limited daily usage | 100 Web Search queries a day via the MCP server with no account; signup API credit valid 60 days (FAQ says $100) |
| Paid from | $49/month for the Search API Team plan, with usage credits included | From $20/month for Komo Pro (2,000 credits a month), with a higher Max plan | $20/month or $200/year (Pro); Max $200/month or $2,000/year | $1 per 1,000 pages (Contents API), pay as you go |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 30M+ standalone monthly active users (100M+ across all products, 2026) | 1B+ queries/month (via API/platform); no verified public figure for consumer user count |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Maker | LazyWeb Inc. | — | Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski | Richard Socher, Bryan McCann |
| Verdict | Andi remains one of the more pleasant free answer engines: no account, no ads, a sourced answer above a clean list of results, and one-click reading, summaries and explanations. PCMag's current roundup names it the best... |
Komo is back to being an AI search engine after a turbulent 2026 in which komo.ai became a B2B sales tool and then a waitlist. The current version answers with sources, lets you focus on academic, news, social or video r... |
Perplexity is still the quickest way to get a sourced answer: each reply links to the pages behind it, so verification takes seconds. Pro at $20 a month adds Deep Research, model choice and Computer credits; Max at $200... |
You.com is now developer infrastructure, and the rate card is clear: $5 per thousand searches, $1 per thousand pages extracted, and research calls from $12 to $1,200 per thousand depending on how hard you want it to dig.... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.