# Can I replace Google Alerts with an AI agent?

A free service that emails you when new web results match a search term. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Google Alerts does and what looot covers

- Search news for a term: covered. Providers: newsdata-io, brave-search.
- Search the web for a term: covered. Providers: exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io.
- Search Google results: covered. Providers: searchapi-io, brave-search, dataforseo.
- Automatic email alerts: not covered. looot runs when your agent calls it, so you need your own schedule and email.

## Agent prompt to replace Google Alerts

Use looot to search news and the web for the terms I give you from the last 24 hours and list new results with the source and a one-line summary. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Google Alerts?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Google Alerts does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Google Alerts alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Google Alerts depends on your volume.

## What does Google Alerts cost?

List prices change, so check Google Alerts's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Google Alerts alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Google Alerts's data jobs directly. The providers used here are newsdata-io, brave-search, exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io, dataforseo.

## Which Google Alerts features does looot not cover?

Not covered: automatic email alerts. Keep Google Alerts for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Google Alerts with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Google Alerts account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Google Alerts account. Your existing Google Alerts data stays where it is.

## Is there a Google Alerts alternative that an agent can run?

Yes for the search. An agent can run the same queries on any schedule you set. Sending the alert email is up to you.

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## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.