NEEDLE
NEEDLE is Live open-source search benchmark: hourly news and daily finance, scholar, rare-word, and legal suites compare public search APIs.. It is ranked #1040 on the Dev Radar, in Backend & APIs, first seen 10 days ago and shared in 1 post (838 views).
NEEDLE — search engine benchmarks MD PDF NEEDLE: Which search API moves the needle for AI agents? News runs each hour; all other suites run each day. Times are UTC. NEEDLE ( N ews, E veryday, E xpert, D eep-tail, and L egal E valuation) is a live open-source search benchmark. It compares search engines with queries that model agent behavior. The five verticals match the use cases we see each day in Keenable's own search traffic: : expert literature searches: find a specific paper from a degraded title, a full-text detail, or a tip-of-the-tongue description : breaking and developing stories; new queries each hour from curated RSS feeds and…
What people said about NEEDLE on X
Cool! More Search API options are available. Welcome, @Tiny_Fish. Great to see search itself comes for free. Curios to check the limits.
— @styskin, 10 days ago · 9 likes · see the post
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NEEDLE in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #1040 of 1353
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @styskin
- 838 views on those posts
- First seen 10 days ago, last shared 10 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: open source
- Market: Backend & APIs
FAQ
What is NEEDLE?
Live open-source search benchmark: hourly news and daily finance, scholar, rare-word, and legal suites compare public search APIs. It was first shared on X 10 days ago and is ranked #1040 on the Dev Radar.
Is NEEDLE free?
It is open source.
Who shared NEEDLE?
1 account on X, including @styskin, in 1 post totalling 838 views.
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 12.2k posts from 4.7k X accounts over the last 21 days, 1.4k tools, 12 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 18:06 UTC. Full method.