Andi Search gives you two answers to every question, and in my test one was five times as reliable as the other. I ran ten pricing questions through it on 28 September 2026 and checked each one against the pricing records I keep for this directory, read off the vendors' own pages in the last three weeks. The AI writeup, which you have to click for, named the right price ten times out of ten. The card Andi shows you first named it twice.
The scope of this test is narrow. I used Andi in a clean headless browser with no account, the way a first-time visitor would. I did not test it on research, news or local searches, so this review covers one job: answering a factual question that has a single correct number. Pricing is a good test for that, because the answer is checkable and the web is full of stale copies of it.
Andi puts a quoted snippet first and the AI answer behind a button
Type a question into Andi Search and the top of the chat shows one card: "I found this information on [site]", a title, and a paragraph lifted from that page. Under it sits a button labelled "Summarize Results" (on some queries, "Generate Answer"). The right-hand column holds the ranked results, each with Visit, Read, Summarize and Explain buttons.
The card is extraction: Andi picks one page and quotes it. That is fast and honest about its source, and it makes the card as good as the page Andi picked.
For "what does cursor pro cost", Andi picked a third-party blog dated 3 September 2026. The $20 is right. The rest describes a plan Cursor no longer sells: "500 fast premium requests per month" and "10 daily Claude 3.5 Sonnet Composer uses". My record for Cursor, read from cursor.com/pricing on 22 September, has Pro at $20 with a $20 usage pool. A 2026 date on a page does not make its contents current, and the card cannot tell the difference.
The default card answered 2 of 10 pricing questions
I phrased each question the way you would type it and recorded what the first card said, whose page it came from, and where the vendor's own domain ranked in the results column.
| Query | Card source | Price in the card | Vendor's rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| cursor pro price | The Next Web | None (a story on the ₹649 India plan) | 3 |
| claude pro price per month | Moneycontrol | None (India pricing story) | 2 |
| claude max plan price | Business Insider | $200 only | 5 |
| github copilot pro+ price | GitHub Docs | None | 1 |
| lovable pro plan price | Lovable Docs | None | 1 |
| grammarly pro price | Grammarly Support | None | 1 |
| suno premier plan price | Suno | None | 1 |
| midjourney basic plan cost | Midjourney Docs | None | 1 |
| consensus app pro price | Consensus Help Center | $20/mo or $144/yr | 1 |
| iask pro price | AI Student Discount | "worth ~$120" a year | 3 |
Consensus is the one full answer, because its help-center page happens to put the price in the first sentence. Claude Max gets half: the Business Insider headline carries $200 and misses the $100 tier.
The ranking itself is good. Andi picked the vendor's own page for the card on six of ten queries, and the vendor ranked in the top five on all ten. The weakness is the snippet: vendor pages open with "Discover the plans available for Copilot", and that sentence is what Andi quotes. News outranked the vendor on three brand-name queries (Cursor and both Claude plans). On two of them the card showed a July 2026 story about India pricing to someone asking what the plan costs.
The AI writeup named the right price all ten times
Clicking "Summarize Results" opens a modal titled "Andi's Writeup", a few hundred words with a table where one fits and a sources line at the bottom. It took between 16 and 38 seconds per query, 25.7 seconds on average across the ten.
| Query | Writeup's headline price | My record (vendor page, date read) |
|---|---|---|
| cursor pro price | $20/mo | Cursor Pro $20 (22 Sep) |
| claude pro price per month | $20/mo, $17 billed annually | Claude Pro $20 (18 Sep) |
| claude max plan price | $100 and $200/mo | Max 5x $100, Max 20x $200 (18 Sep) |
| github copilot pro+ price | $39/mo | GitHub Copilot Pro+ $39 (7 Sep) |
| lovable pro plan price | $25/mo, $21 billed annually | Lovable Pro $25 (19 Sep) |
| grammarly pro price | $30/mo, $12 billed annually | Grammarly Pro $30 (20 Sep) |
| suno premier plan price | $30/mo | Suno Premier $30 (19 Sep) |
| midjourney basic plan cost | $10/mo, $96/yr | Midjourney Basic $10 (22 Sep) |
| consensus app pro price | $20/mo, $144/yr | Consensus Pro $20 (20 Sep) |
| iask pro price | $9.95/mo | iAsk.ai Pro $9.95 (19 Sep) |
Ten for ten on the number you asked for. The writeups also did useful work beyond the headline figure. The Grammarly answer laid out monthly, quarterly and annual billing side by side, which exposes a 150% gap between the monthly and annual rate. The iAsk answer flagged that one aggregator lists $19.99 and sided with the vendor's page. The Consensus answer warned that third-party sites still quote $10, $11.99 and $8.99.
The Cursor writeup is the best of the set. It cites cursor.com/pricing first, lists all four individual tiers at the prices on my record, and adds the India-only plan the default card led with, this time in the right place.
The secondary claims need the same check you would give any AI answer
My first Copilot writeup said Pro+ "was previously $20/month before GitHub restructured individual pricing in 2026" and that "the price nearly doubled". GitHub announced Pro+ at $39 a month in April 2025, and it has stayed at $39. I asked the same question again a few minutes later and the new writeup dropped the claim and described the June 2026 move to AI credits instead.
I take two things from that. The writeup is regenerated per request, so two people asking the same question can get different supporting facts. And the headline number was right both times while a sentence around it was invented. If a writeup gives you a fact you plan to act on, open the source it cites; Andi links every one.
The privacy claims held up in the browser
Andi's privacy page promises no cookies, no IP logging, no search logging, no third-party tracking and no ads. I can check the browser side of that, and not the server side.
In the browser, a search for "best python web framework 2026" set zero cookies. Of the 130 requests the page made, 129 went to Andi's own hosts (the app, its API and an image proxy). The one exception was Cloudflare's Web Analytics beacon, a cookieless page-view counter. Local storage held six keys, one of them named ph_andi-posthog, which points to PostHog product analytics. I saw no requests to a PostHog domain, so any events travel through Andi's own hosts. That fits the page's wording, "analytics within our service", and it means Andi counts usage. The result text I captured for all ten pricing queries contained no ads.
No browser test can show whether Andi logs searches on its servers. You take their word for that, as you would with any search engine.
Free with no account, and one claim I could not verify
The consumer search costs nothing and asks for no sign-in; I ran all of the above without an account. Andi publishes no consumer pricing page. The developer API at andiai.com/api describes "outcome-based pricing" at "<1¢ per query" and reports the exact charge in each response, with no public rate card.
The site's headline claim is "87% accuracy, beating Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity", backed by "independent testing". Neither the search site nor the API page links to that benchmark, and I could not find its methodology. My ten questions are not a benchmark either. They show that on single-answer pricing questions, the writeup was reliable and the default card was not.
Andi against the AI search tools I track
| Tool | Free tier | Paid consumer plan | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andi Search | Yes, no account | None published | 28 Sep (this test) |
| Perplexity | Yes | Pro $20/mo, $17 billed annually | 20 Sep |
| iAsk.ai | Yes, with limited ads | Pro $9.95/mo, no ads | 19 Sep |
| You.com | $100 API credit | None on sale, API only | 22 Sep |
All dates 2026. I have not run my ten questions through Perplexity, iAsk or You.com, so this table compares price and access, not answer quality.
For a side-by-side on more fields, see Andi Search vs Perplexity and Andi Search vs iAsk.ai. If you came to Andi as a developer after Phind closed, Phind alternatives covers the code-focused options, and Andi vs Phind puts the two side by side.
Who should use it
Use Andi if you want a free, ad-free, account-free search with an AI answer you can ask for when you need it. Click "Summarize Results" for any question with a right answer, and treat the card as a pointer to a source.
If you want the AI answer every time without a click, Perplexity does that by default and has a paid tier for heavier use. If you need the answer to cite a specific current document, go to the vendor's page yourself. Andi ranked it in the top five on all ten of my questions, so it will get you there fast.
FAQ
What is the Andi Search official website?
andisearch.com runs the search. The company, Andi AI, is at andiai.com, which also hosts the developer API. Both loaded on 28 September 2026.
Is Andi an AI search engine?
Yes. It ranks web results like a search engine, quotes one source by default, and generates a cited writeup when you click "Summarize Results".
Tested on andisearch.com (app version v0.8.23) on 28 September 2026. Andi regenerates answers per request, so your results for the same queries may differ.
