Komo Search vs Perplexity AI vs You.com vs Andi Search
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Komo Search
Pre-launch waitlist — the ad-free search engine is gone
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Perplexity AI
The answer engine that cites its sources on every live web query
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You.com
Web-grounded research and search APIs for developers and enterprises
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Andi Search
Conversational AI search with visual results
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Unknown | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Unlimited basic searches with standard model | $100 one-time free API credit for new signups | — |
| Paid from | — | $20/month (Pro); $200/month (Max, launched July 2025) | Research API per 1,000 calls: Lite $12 up to Frontier $2,000+ (contact sales) | — |
| 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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski | Richard Socher, Bryan McCann | — |
| Verdict | Komo Search is a privacy-minded, ad-free AI search engine that scans the live web to build answers, organised into Chat, Explore and Search modes with a clean, fast interface. For users who want quick AI answers without... |
Perplexity remains the strongest citation-first answer engine: every query triggers a live web search and each sentence links to its sources, which makes verification fast in a way plain chatbots can't match. The free ti... |
You.com finished its long pivot in February 2026: the consumer answer engine is now the shop window for a B2B Research API business, with effort-tiered endpoints (lite through frontier, roughly $6.50 to $300 per thousand... |
Andi Search is a privacy-first AI answer engine that returns conversational summaries and curated source links instead of ad-laden result pages. It is genuinely ad-free, tracker-light, and pleasant for quick factual look... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.