AI Search Comparison

This comparison examines the search capabilities and filtering options available across major AI language model search APIs.

Comparison

Claude AI Search Web search tool - Anthropic

• Filter domains: ✅ Available
• Filter date: Not supported
• Localize search results: ✅ Available

OpenAI Web search - OpenAI API

• Filter domains: Not supported
• Filter date: Not supported
• Localize search results: ✅ Available "To refine search results based on geography, you can specify an approximate user location using country, city, region, and/or timezone."

Gemini + Enalbe Grounding with Google Search

• Filter domains: Not supported
• Filter date: Not supported
• Localize search results:

Gemini + Enalbe URL context feature

• Filter domains: ✅ Available. Can analyze up to 20 URLs per request as defined in prompt content
• Filter date:
• Localize search results:
• Comment: I tested AIStudio by restricting company news searches to 20 specified news websites. Despite this constraint, the results still included content from unrelated domains.

Perplexity Sonar

• Filter domains: ✅ Available. Supports maximum of 10 domains
• Filter date: ✅ Available
• Localize search results: ✅ Available

xAI Live Search

• Filter domains: ✅ Available with three parameters
  1. Parameter: allowed_websites
  2. Parameter: excluded_websites
  3. Parameter: sources. You also can customize data sources including web, X search, news, and RSS feeds.
• Filter date: ✅ Available with from_date and to_date parameters
• Localize search results: ✅ Available with country parameter.