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.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
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
San Francisco, California, United States
Miami, Florida, United States
New York, New York, United States
Business model
free consumer search
developer API
API licensing
enterprise partnerships
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Chief Customer Officer
Chief Design Officer
Work & culture
Small, founder-led team with a lean shipping culture, emphasizing accuracy, privacy, no ads, and open-source/community-driven tools.
Product & market
Pricing
Free consumer search; API pricing is under 1 cent per query for fast/deep access, with early-access/API licensing for developers.
Differentiators
- —Owns its own index instead of bolting on Google/Bing results
- —Trantora scores meaning and credibility across 450+ data points per page
- —Claims 87% accuracy on independent benchmark testing
- —No ads, no tracking, no account required
- —Direct answers plus Summarize, Explain, and Generate workflows
- —Built for AI agents and RAG with markdown / llms.txt and structured outputs
- —API speed tiers: sub-second fast mode and deeper multi-query mode
Technology
Trantora
Kubernetes
Docker
Python
Hugging Face
large language models
OpenSearch compatibility
Google Custom Search compatibility
MCP server
Markdown / llms.txt support
Customers
everyday search users
privacy-conscious users
AI agents
RAG developers
startups building AI products
YC startup founders
Competitors
Google Search
Google Gemini
Perplexity
You.com
ChatGPT
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Lucidworks
Inbenta
Iprally
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$3M-$5M estimated ARR (third-party estimate around $3.8M)
Estimated monthly visits
200.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2026
Latest news
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.
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