# Provider reference

All 15 providers, with explicit boundaries between web results, provider-native operations, and corpus retrieval.

Canonical: https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers
Markdown: https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers.md

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## Choose by operation

Use normalized search when you need a common source-result shape. Use a provider-native client for the provider's own options, jobs, streams, extraction, or synthesis. Similar operation names do not establish equivalent semantics or costs.

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## The complete catalog

- [Context.dev](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/context): Web search with optional page content and query-relevant passages.
- [TinyFish](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/tinyfish): Structured web search with ranked titles, URLs, and snippets.
- [Exa](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/exa): Web search with query-relevant highlights and native relevance.
- [Tavily](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/tavily): Agent-oriented web search with relevance-ranked content snippets.
- [Brave](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/brave): Independent-index web search with descriptions and extra snippets.
- [Perplexity](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/perplexity): Ranked web results with extracted snippets and search filters.
- [Parallel](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/parallel): Web retrieval using search queries and an optional research objective.
- [Linkup](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/linkup): Search with source results, sourced answers, and structured output modes.
- [Firecrawl](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/firecrawl): Web search with optional scraping of returned pages.
- [You.com](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/you): Web and news search with snippets and optional page extraction.
- [Serper](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/serper): Google search results across web and specialized result categories.
- [SerpAPI](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/serpapi): Structured search results from Google and other supported engines.
- [Valyu](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/valyu): Web search with source content and provider-native relevance.
- [SearXNG](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/searxng): Metasearch through an operator-selected SearXNG instance.
- [WonderSearch](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/providers/wondersearch): Semantic retrieval over your own documents and workspace collections.

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## Shared reliability

Native responses have `{ data, metadata }`. Normalized responses have results, provenance, attempts, warnings, and reported usage. Each surface has explicit retry and deadline rules; read the corresponding reference before sharing policy between them.

- [Provider-native transport](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/api/native-transport)
- [Normalized request](https://searchsdk.dev/docs/api/search)