layahost vs Desearch

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layahost compared with Desearch
Detail	layahost	Desearch
What it does	Jev-compatible API for text classification and moderation, hosted in the EU	Web search API for AI agents that returns current, source-linked context
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	FI	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Free: $1 credit (66.7K decisions) on sign-up. Starter: $9/month for 1M decisions, then $10/million. Pro: $49/month for 10M decisions, then $5/million. Pay as you go: $15/million decisions from prepaid credit ($10 minimum). Clef-flash: $0.10/million tokens. Clef: $0.50/million tokens. Bonus credit: +	New accounts get $5 in API credits after attaching a card, then pay as you go. AI Search $0.40 per 1,000 items; Web Search $1.00 per 1,000 searches; Extract $0.50 per 1,000 pages; X Search $0.15 per 1,000 posts. X Profile Search $25.00 per 1,000 profiles; YouTube Creator Search $10.00 per 1,000 crea
Key features	Decision flows: chain decisions on a canvas for multi-step classification Test sets: measure accuracy on your own labelled data before deployment Compare models side-by-side: test Laya, Clef-flash and Clef on the same data Custom models: fine-tune Laya on your own labelled examples Jev API compatibility: same endpoints, request and response formats as Jev Perspective API replacement: drop-in replacement for Google's deprecated moderation API Multiple model options: Laya (fast, cheap, EU-hosted), Clef-flash (9B model) and Clef (27B model)	AI Search with summaries and cited sources Web Search with SERP-style results Page extraction in text, markdown or HTML X (Twitter) search for posts, profiles, replies and trends People Search across X, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok Company Search and Company Enrich REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, and MCP server Source filtering by domain and platform Publication dates included when available SOC 2 Type II compliance and GDPR support
What makes it different	EU-hosted Laya model: text never leaves the EU and is not used for training No lock-in: API compatible with Jev, uses open-weights models you can run yourself	Built on decentralized Bittensor network for fresh, current web index Single API key covers all services: web, AI search, extraction and social Results packaged with source links and passages for agent verification Agents can set themselves up with one-line MCP server installation 99.1% reference page retrieval on SimpleQA Verified benchmark
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	32 no change since last check	30 +3 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	7	4
Citation Flow (Majestic)	27	34
Referring domains (Majestic)	90	175

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