Web Search

ASSIST AI can browse the internet to answer questions requiring current or specialized information the AI may not be confident about. Users can toggle the Web Search Action on or off at any time to override the AI’s default behavior. When Internal Search is also used, ASSIST AI seamlessly combines web sources with internal documents — both in the generated answer and in the UI.

Requirements

Web Search relies on two components: 1) a search provider to retrieve results, and 2) a web scraper to extract full page content for more complete answers.

Name	Provider	Price	Benefit
Exa	Exa.ai	$5 / 1,000 queries	AI-optimized with strong semantic search
Serper	Serper.dev	Free tier + $0.30 / 1,000 queries	Fast and budget-friendly
Brave	Brave Search API	Usage-based	Independent index, wide web coverage, simple setup
Google PSE	Google	Free tier + $5 / 1,000 queries	Official Google results, ideal for security-conscious teams
SearXNG	SearXNG	Self-hosted / infrastructure cost only	Private, self-hostable metasearch across multiple engines

Web Scrappers

Since search providers return only short snippets, a scraper fetches the full page content for richer, more reliable responses.

Name	Requires Config	Benefits
ASSIST AI Web Crawler	No	Built-in, works on most pages, free, and keeps queries within your deployment
Firecrawl	Yes — API key + base URL	Higher performance with better handling of edge cases
Exa	Yes — API key	Fetches and summarizes page content, ideal for teams already using Exa as their search provider

Getting Started

Core Features

Requirements

Web Scrappers

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​Web Scrappers

Requirements

Web Scrappers