Linkup for AI agents: benchmark results
Linkup (content API) was tested on scrape and search, not on map and crawl. It got the same tasks, the same model (Claude Haiku 5.5), the same prompt and the same limits as every other provider, and a script checked every answer.
Scrape 60 tasks · Read one page and pull out exact fields: prices, versions, install commands.
- Tasks done
- 90%
- 54 of 60
- 95% interval
- 90%–90%
- Cost per finished task
- 0.60¢
- Median time
- 3.4 s
2nd of 8 on tasks done, tied with 2 others. Linkup is behind Context.dev (92%), but the gap of 2 points is too small to rule out chance.
Raw output, no model: the API's own response held every answer on 50 of 55 applicable tasks (91%), at 0.12¢ of API spend per finished task.
Tuned settings, frozen before the run: 54 of 60 (90%), against 90% with defaults.
| Provider | Tasks done | 95% interval | Cost per finished task | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Context.dev | 55 of 60 (92%) | 90%–100% | 0.72¢ | 3.7 s |
| Linkup | 54 of 60 (90%) | 90%–90% | 0.60¢ | 3.4 s |
| Firecrawl | 54 of 60 (90%) | 90%–90% | 1.22¢ | 3.3 s |
| TinyFish | 54 of 60 (90%) | 80%–92% | 0.43¢ | 3.5 s |
| Scrapfly | 53 of 60 (88%) | 80%–90% | 0.61¢ | 5.0 s |
| Jina | 52 of 60 (87%) | 60%–92% | 0.57¢ | 3.8 s |
| Browserbase | 49 of 60 (82%) | 78%–100% | 1.12¢ | 3.3 s |
| Spider | 12 of 60 (20%) | 4%–100% | 2.48¢ | 4.6 s |
Search 60 tasks · Find a fact on the live web: a package's latest version, a filing figure, a release date.
- Tasks done
- 83%
- 50 of 60
- 95% interval
- 65%–97%
- Cost per finished task
- 2.55¢
- Median time
- 5.3 s
2nd of 5 on tasks done. Linkup is behind Firecrawl (85%), but the gap of 2 points is too small to rule out chance.
Raw output, no model: the API's own response held every answer on 36 of 53 applicable tasks (68%), at 0.83¢ of API spend per finished task.
| Provider | Tasks done | 95% interval | Cost per finished task | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecrawl | 51 of 60 (85%) | 69%–100% | 3.04¢ | 11 s |
| Linkup | 50 of 60 (83%) | 65%–97% | 2.55¢ | 5.3 s |
| Context.dev | 45 of 60 (75%) | 52%–96% | 1.82¢ | 5.2 s |
| TinyFish | 44 of 60 (73%) | 47%–96% | 1.31¢ | 5.3 s |
| Browserbase | 23 of 60 (38%) | 21%–59% | 5.97¢ | 12 s |
Linkup compared
- Firecrawl vs Linkup scrape and search, compared with Firecrawl
- Context.dev vs Linkup scrape and search, compared with Context.dev
- Linkup vs TinyFish scrape and search, compared with TinyFish