Every option in the catalog for when you need to ask the open web a question and get cited answers — 16 AI search and answer engines, 15 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
Flocci AI Tools lists 16 of them, ordered free tiers first: Metaso AI Search (Mita), Morphic, Scira, Baidu AI Search and Nano AI Search (360). 15 of the 16 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
6 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Metaso AI Search (Mita), Morphic, Scira, Baidu AI Search and Nano AI Search (360). The remaining 10 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.
Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.
Metaso AI Search (Mita), Morphic, Scira, ChatGPT Search and Exa all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 12 of the 15 free AI search and answer engines listed here are browser-based.
Metaso AI Search (Mita), Felo and iAsk.ai support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 3 of the 15 free AI search and answer engines on this page.
Metaso AI Search (Mita), Baidu AI Search, Nano AI Search (360), ChatGPT Search and Grok DeeperSearch have an iOS or Android app. 7 of the 15 free AI search and answer engines here can run on your phone.
Perplexica can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 1 of the 15 free AI search and answer engines here run offline.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metaso AI Search (Mita) | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Ad-free AI search with direct answers |
| Morphic | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine |
| Scira | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free, no credit card required |
| Baidu AI Search | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Ad-free AI answers built on Baidu Search, Wenku, Health and Law content |
| Nano AI Search (360) | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Calls 16+ Chinese large models (Doubao, Ernie, Qwen, MiniMax) in one search |
| Perplexica | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | MIT-licensed, fully self-hostable open-source Perplexity clone |
| ChatGPT Search | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Real-time web answers inside ChatGPT |
| Exa | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Search API built specifically for AI agents/LLMs, not humans |
| Felo | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free multilingual AI search & creation platform |
| Grok DeeperSearch | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Live search across X and the open web |
| iAsk.ai | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free AI answer engine aimed at students/researchers |
| Komo | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Fast, ad-free AI search |
| Parallel | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Recurring monthly free allowance of several thousand requests |
| Perplexity | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | Cited, real-time answers (1B+ queries/quarter) |
| Tavily | Freemium | AI Search & Answer Engines | 1,000 free API credits/month, no card required |
| Kagi Assistant | Trial | AI Search & Answer Engines | Bundled with Kagi's paid ad-free search subscription |