Every option in the catalog for when you need to ask the open web a question and get cited answers — 13 AI search and answer engines, 12 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
Flocci AI Tools lists 13 of them, ordered free tiers first: Morphic, Perplexica, Scira, ChatGPT Search and Exa. 12 of the 13 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
3 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Morphic, Perplexica and Scira. 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.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morphic | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Open-source, Apache 2.0, self-hostable generative-UI search engine |
| Perplexica | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | MIT-licensed, fully self-hostable open-source Perplexity clone |
| Scira | Free | AI Search & Answer Engines | Free, no credit card required |
| 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 |