Conarepreview · 10 nov 2026
Benchmarks

The right paper, in the top ten.

NEEDLE asks for one specific arXiv paper from a vague description, a detail in its body or a half-remembered title. Twenty search products, the same 1,960 questions.

NEEDLE Scholar, arXivrecall@10

Find one specific paper from a vague description, a detail in its body or a half-remembered title. 1,960 questions.

Conare96.2%1 of 20 companies
  1. 1Conare96.2
  2. 2Keenable81.0
  3. 3context.dev65.7
  4. 4Parallel61.2
  5. 5Perplexity60.9
  6. 6Kagi59.3
  7. 7Brave58.8
  8. 8Exa58.0
  9. 9Jina54.9
  10. 10Firecrawl54.7
  11. 11Claude search53.9
  12. 12Google (Serper)53.5
  13. 13Linkup52.7
  14. 14You.com52.3
  15. 15TinyFish45.8
  16. 16Bing40.5
  17. 17Octen36.6
  18. 18Tavily34.0
  19. 19DeepSeek27.9
  20. 20ChatGPT search23.6

Share of questions whose paper is in the top 10. NEEDLE is Keenable's open, live search benchmark. Every company it published for 20 to 25 Oct 2026, best mode each, with failed searches left out as NEEDLE scores them now; Conare read live on 9 Nov 2026 on the same 1,960 questions. Conare searches its arXiv index, the other engines search the web.