| the reality is that the space is huge and expanding many that you mentioned serve different needs and it tends to not be zero sum to everyone's surprise (including mine at first) e.g. browseruse, browserbase = browser automation
exa, parallel = search for ai (primarily) we differentiate by prioritizing the infrastructure use-case, we encourage people to build products & features on top of our APIs and build it accordingly some direct differentiators are: no hidden credit multipliers, world class brand data, and an api that just works we're trying to be good samaritans on the web, and cache data whenever possible so we can avoid overloading a website, it's the main reason we don't offer "login with ai" features even though it's trivial at this point, it's quite hard to figure out how to avoid shady behavior while building something people want, i don't have a good answer yet and neither do many others lastly, to reiterate, lots of our customers migrate from alternatives, but lots also just use multiple providers |