MevaSearch vs Yep: search engines compared

Who is behind Yep and MevaSearch

Yep was created by Ahrefs, a company known for its SEO tools. It was announced in 2019 as an independent search engine built on its own index. Today Ahrefs also offers Yep as a search API for AI agents, and that is what the yep.com home page promotes.

MevaSearch is a Polish search engine developed by WebOrbiton and created by its owner, Igor Oprządek. It focuses on one thing, search, and is funded only by subscriptions. There are no ads, we do not build user profiles and we do not keep a search history linked to your account.

Where the results come from

Yep does not use results from other search engines. It relies on the index that also powers Ahrefs’ tools, which according to the company holds more than 100 billion pages. It is built by AhrefsBot, which according to Ahrefs recrawls around 8 billion pages a day.

MevaSearch uses Brave. It combines results from the Brave Search API with its own Polish index WebAtlas and Wikipedia, and when you want to see more, it adds results from the independent Mojeek index. For technical, scientific or book related queries, specialist sources appear as well, including Stack Overflow, MDN, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, Zenodo, Open Library, Codeberg and the CIRCL vulnerability database for CVE numbers.

The same query in both search engines

For the query YouTube, Yep shows youtube.com first, followed by YouTube TV and the YouTube blog. However, the first results also include sites for downloading YouTube videos, and the results page has no video section or information panel.

For the same query, MevaSearch shows youtube.com first, with a box for searching YouTube directly and extra links, followed by videos and other pages about YouTube. Every result also has a CloakView button that opens the page through MevaSearch, without a direct connection to the website.

Ads and privacy

In our test, the Yep results page showed no ads, and results could be filtered by language. We did not find details about the privacy of the search engine itself on the pages we checked.

MevaSearch requires an account because it is a paid service, but it does not build a user profile, does not keep a search history linked to your account, shows no ads and does not work with ad networks. On top of that, NetKrypton warns you about scam websites, results are marked when a link is dead, and tracking parameters are removed from links.

AI

The yep.com search engine does not show AI answers. Instead, Ahrefs offers Yep as a data source for other companies’ AI agents, which receive page excerpts matched to the query.

At MevaSearch, every AI feature runs on Claude by Anthropic. That covers short summaries above the results, MevaSearch AI chat, which remembers the conversation and cites a source for each piece of information, related searches and photo search. Requests reach Anthropic from our servers without any account details, and under Anthropic’s commercial terms, data sent through its API is not used to train its models. AI answers are included in every plan, from 200 a month on Lite to 3,000 on Pro.

Prices

Searching on yep.com is free. The Yep API for developers starts with 1,000 free requests and then costs 4 dollars per 1,000 requests on Balanced or 8 dollars on Advanced.

MevaSearch Lite costs 4.99 dollars a month and includes 500 searches and 200 AI answers. Plus costs 14.99 dollars for 1,500 searches, 1,000 AI answers and two extra profiles. Pro costs 24.99 dollars and gives you unlimited searches, 3,000 AI answers and four profiles. The Lite plan comes with a free trial of 3 days, and MevaSearch prices include VAT.

Where Yep is stronger

Yep is one of the few search engines with its own very large index, independent of Google and Bing. It is free, simple and fast, and developers can use the same index through an API.

What makes MevaSearch stand out

MevaSearch gives everyone search without ads from the first query. On top of that you get AI answers with sources, specialist results for developers and researchers, NetKrypton warnings about scam websites, the option to pin or hide domains, !bang shortcuts, dead link markers and removal of tracking parameters from links. There are also separate tabs for images, videos, news, music and podcasts, family profiles, a plan for businesses and an interface in 19 languages.

Which one should you choose

If you want a free, minimalist search engine with its own index, or you are building an AI agent, Yep is worth a look. If you want an everyday search engine without ads, with AI answers by Anthropic, video results, specialist sources and family profiles, MevaSearch will suit you better.

With the 3 day trial of MevaSearch Lite, you can compare both search engines side by side.