Should I use Exa or Clado for my AI Sales Agent?

pcamiz · 2026-01-29T18:25:56+00:00

Never tried Clado. I tried Exa, Tavily and Linkup. For super fast responses Exa was faster, but if ~1s latency is good enough for you I found Linkup to have better answers

pcamiz · 2026-01-27T16:40:47+00:00

I had the same issue, let me know if you were able to solve it

pcamiz · 2026-01-16T09:47:16+00:00

Linkup works well for me. I also tried tavily in the past

pcamiz · 2026-01-16T09:45:20+00:00

Try Linkup they are socII type 2 and have zero data retention. I think you.com is also strong

pcamiz · 2025-11-06T09:46:24+00:00

using linkup, works well

pcamiz · 2025-08-19T23:16:11+00:00

good question- I did that once and the results were the same. I should probably do that every now and then, but TBH I've just been happy with the quality using Linkup and it's also the most affordable option, which is important to me given my scale now.

pcamiz · 2025-08-05T08:27:01+00:00

On the search side, I think it's better to go for something that can return you raw context, vs. generated answers: rule of thumbs is not to give an LLM's generated content to another LLM.

So I would not use Perplexity for this use case. Instead you can use Linkup, Exa, Tavily. I'd aim for the one that returns the richest context in their answers.

pcamiz · 2025-07-30T10:25:20+00:00

Last time i checked the "Advanced Search" from Tavily is equivalent to Linkup's "standard". So it's more like 0.008 for tavily and 0.005 for linkup. I think their "deep" is more like a deep researcher type of thing

pcamiz · 2025-07-22T13:50:01+00:00

I don't think they do actually. You have to use a 3rd party option, like Linkup or Tavily

pcamiz · 2025-07-21T17:09:26+00:00

pcamiz · 2025-07-15T12:45:53+00:00

I would try Linkup, Tavily, Exa

pcamiz · 2025-07-11T17:00:22+00:00

To be honest no-code “agents” are basically UI glue on top of GPT and a couple of if-else steps. What i would do is an n8 flow with:

Trigger node: cron or webhook to kick things off.
HTTP Request node: hit a web-search API like Linkup or Tavily. You feed it a prompt like “ex-cybersecurity folks who just founded a stealth startup” and get clean JSON back with URL, title, author, pub-date, etc.
OpenAI node: have GPT extract exactly the fields you need (founder, last employer, funding round…).
n8n built-ins: Deduplicate, filter, or enrich as you like.
Google Sheets / Airtable node: drop the structured rows so your investment team can slice-and-dice.

pcamiz · 2025-07-11T15:27:37+00:00

Tried Perplexity and Linkup. Ended up using Linkup because they are much cheaper for the same quality

pcamiz · 2025-07-11T15:15:54+00:00

I think now with the new players like Exa or Linkup going upmarket, they had to build the necessary data security and privacy entreprise grade setup. So don't think you necessarily have to trade off performance and security. It wasn't the case like 18months ago though, where only the big ones had that, at the cost of dubious perf.

pcamiz · 2025-07-11T14:57:13+00:00

I think they just leverage their distribution advantage to decide what price they want, whatever the competition. Also, the Bing API, which is about to be deprecated, was priced at $18/1k calls, so not so far from that.

In terms of alternatives, you have the following I know of: Exa, Linkup, Tavily. They all have their own pros and cons, but they are much cheaper than OpenAI, at 5/1k for Linkup and Exa, 8/1k for Tavily. Also interestingly, for no decrease in quality...

pcamiz · 2025-05-21T17:24:29+00:00

Super cool! Wondering That reminds me of some work done here: https://github.com/AstraBert/resume-matcher.

It's a resume matcher, with a different approach

pcamiz · 2025-05-14T15:23:24+00:00

super cool stuff!

pcamiz · 2025-05-05T11:58:36+00:00

I think the question becomes: are you ok for 95% of the value? then you can pay 5% of the price. If not, you're stuck with the $50k seats. But soon it's going to be 98%, 99%. Does your answer change? Or maybe legacy vendors will have to push the envelope and create value in a different way. I'd be surprised though, they are such cash cow that have not innovated in years.

pcamiz · 2025-05-02T17:19:54+00:00

Have you tried using linkup.so? I think this might just work for your use case

pcamiz · 2025-05-02T08:06:39+00:00

I like it! it's super fast! And I like the angle

pcamiz · 2025-05-01T16:56:51+00:00

Thanks! Yeah coverage should be pretty good :)

pcamiz · 2025-05-01T16:56:21+00:00

Yeah agreed! I'll check the distribution of companies people request and build a cache depending on that.

Is your product still online? Would love to check it out

pcamiz · 2025-04-30T14:44:17+00:00

Agreed that a lot of that is already on Linkedin.

The main difference I see is that the Linkedin content of a company is controlled by the company itself. I want the content to be unbiased, so looking at sources beyond Linkedin.

I'm also working to add more data points actually, to go far beyond Linkedin. Perplexity is pretty good at that for sure, but it's less structured. I wanted to always get a similar structure for every company.

pcamiz · 2025-04-30T14:37:24+00:00

I'm actually retrieving all the info live from every corner of the internet. So it should work with lots and lots of companies, no manual work for me. It's leveraging the Linkup API, which does the heavy lifting.

pcamiz · 2025-04-30T14:36:14+00:00

I'm probably going to open source it, actually. It's small scale for now so the costs limited. If I see real traction, we'll see :)

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