# Keenable

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Keenable and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a cheaper, lower-latency alternative to Exa with similar quality, with fast, sensible results. Critics note Grokipedia sometimes outranks Wikipedia and some queries fail.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheaper and lower latency than Exa (2 comments): "we are competitive in quality to exa (the market leader) but much cheaper and lower latency" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436411)) "The main differences are lower price and latency while having roughly the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436442))
- Similar quality to Exa (2 comments): "we are competitive in quality to exa (the market leader) but much cheaper and lower latency" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436411)) "The main differences are lower price and latency while having roughly the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436442))
- Fast, sensible results, few issues (2 comments): "I've been using keenable a lot and I've had no noticable issues with it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974946)) "Seemed pretty fast, used reasonable sources, results makes sense" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525601))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Exa](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exa.md): 33 recommend
- [SerpApi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/serpapi.md): 16 recommend
- [Brave Search API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-search-api.md): 15 recommend
- [DeepSeek search API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-search-and-fetch.md): 15 recommend
- [Kagi Search API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi-search-api.md): 10 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://keenable.ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Keenable", https://hackerapproved.com/p/keenable-select/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).