Andi AI / PCMag · Mar 2026
PCMag named Andi the Best Free AI Search Engine for 2026, marking the third consecutive year of recognition and reiterating that the product is free, ad-free, and privacy-focused.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Andi is a founder-led, privacy-first AI search company building answer-first web search and a developer search API on its own 15B-page index (Trantora), positioned as an ad-free alternative to traditional search and AI chat engines.
Primary product
AI search engine and search API
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Internet Publishing
Sub-industry
AI Search Engine
Offices
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Business model
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Chief Customer Officer
Chief Design Officer
Investors
Small, founder-led team with a lean shipping culture, emphasizing accuracy, privacy, no ads, and open-source/community-driven tools.
Pricing
Free consumer search; API pricing is under 1 cent per query for fast/deep access, with early-access/API licensing for developers.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$3M-$5M estimated ARR (third-party estimate around $3.8M)
Estimated monthly visits
200.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2026
Andi AI / PCMag · Mar 2026
PCMag named Andi the Best Free AI Search Engine for 2026, marking the third consecutive year of recognition and reiterating that the product is free, ad-free, and privacy-focused.
Andi on LinkedIn · Feb 2026
Announced the new andiai.com developer/marketing site, agent-friendly markdown delivery, and early access to the Search API; the post also highlighted six YC startups already building on the API.
Andi AI · Feb 2026
Product update covering faster search, a built-in calculator, a new site split between andisearch.com and andiai.com, and an API waitlist for AI and RAG developers.
Andi AI · Feb 2026
Introduced AIRun, an open-source CLI for executable markdown prompts with shebangs and Unix pipes, aimed at scripting AI workflows and switching across local/cloud models.
GlobeNewswire / Andi · Sep 2024
Andi announced top-ranking performance in Talc's SearchBench AI evaluation, claiming 87% factual accuracy and positioning itself ahead of Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, and You.com on that benchmark.