Decision guide · Web Extraction · Verified
Best web extraction API for SEO & Content Extraction
Retaining the required on-page phrases across diverse page types (products, listings, docs), not just articles.
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For SEO & Content Extraction, Exa ranks first on the weighted score (phrase recall 50%, fidelity 0-1 30%, boilerplate excl. 20%). Per dimension — best phrase recall: Exa (0.67); best fidelity 0-1: Exa (0.74); best boilerplate excl.: Exa (0.76).
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Weighted Ranking
| Vendor | score | phrase recall ·50% | fidelity 0-1 ·30% | boilerplate excl. ·20% |
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| 1Exa | 1.0 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.76 |
| 2Firecrawl | 0.486 | 0.58 | 0.66 | 0.64 |
| 3Tavily | 0.288 | 0.54 | 0.62 | 0.68 |
| 4Jina | 0.192 | 0.59 | 0.54 | 0.26 |
Score = weighted sum of per-metric values normalized 0–1 across vendors (cost inverted). Source: Web Extraction leaderboard.
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Cost Calculator
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Estimated spend = correct pages × cost-per-verified-correct (provisional pricing). Vendors without an archived plan rate are omitted.