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# Pay as you go

Run up to 2,000 requests for free

|                   | Task API                                                   | Search API                          | Chat API                     |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| Inputs            | Existing structured data, Question                         | Search objective, Queries           | Question                     |
| Outputs           | Structured enrichments, Answers                            | Ranked URLs, Excerpts               | Free text, Structured JSON   |
| Best for          | Database enrichment, deep research, or workflow automation | Web search tool calls for AI agents | Interactive chat apps and UX |
| Latency           | 10s - 20min, asynchronous                                  | <5s, synchronous                    | <5s, synchronous             |
| Basis             | Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts                 | —                                   | Citations                    |
| Rate limits       | 2,000 requests / min                                       | 1,000 requests / min                | 30 requests / min            |
| Security          | SOC2                                                       | SOC2                                | SOC2                         |
| Price per request | $0.005 - $2.4                                              | $0.004 - $0.009                     | $0.005                       |

Task API

Enrich a list of entities, optimized for quality & freshness

Price per request:
$0.005 - $2.4
Task playground[Task playground](https://platform.parallel.ai/play)
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Inputs:
Existing structured dataQuestion
Outputs:
Structured enrichmentsAnswers
Best for:
Database enrichment, deep research, or workflow automation
Latency:
10s - 20min, asynchronous
Basis:
Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts
Rate limits:
2,000 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Search API

Ranked web URLs with long, relevant content

Price per request:
$0.004 - $0.009
Search playground[Search playground](https://platform.parallel.ai/play/search)
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Inputs:
Search objectiveQueries
Outputs:
Ranked URLsExcerpts
Best for:
Web search tool calls for AI agents
Latency:
<5s, synchronous
Basis:
—
Rate limits:
1,000 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Chat API

Fast, web-researched LLM completions

Price per request:
$0.005
Chat playground[Chat playground](https://platform.parallel.ai/play/chat)
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Inputs:
Question
Outputs:
Free textStructured JSON
Best for:
Interactive chat apps and UX
Latency:
<5s, synchronous
Basis:
Citations
Rate limits:
30 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

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Built for scalable, reliable, enterprise workloads

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  • - Dedicated onboarding and technical support

## Allocate compute based on task complexity

Parallel lets you easily flex compute based on the complexity of your task

## Pricing breakdown

Lite: Basic information retrieval
$5.001,000 requests

### Task API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for                     | Latency  | Max Fields | Basis                                      |
| --------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Lite      | $5                     | Basic information retrieval  | 5s-45s   | 2          | Citations, Reasoning                       |
| Base      | $10                    | Simple web research          | 10s-80s  | 5          | Citations, Reasoning                       |
| Core      | $30                    | Complex web research         | 45s-160s | 10         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Pro       | $100                   | Exploratory web research     | 60s-8min | 20         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra     | $300                   | Advanced deep research       | 5-12min  | 20         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra2x   | $600                   | Difficult deep research      | 8-15min  | 25         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra4x   | $1,200                 | Very difficult deep research | 8-20min  | 25         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra8x   | $2,400                 | Most difficult deep research | 8-20min  | 25         | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |

### Search API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for           | Latency |
| --------- | ---------------------- | ------------------ | ------- |
| Base      | $4                     | Low latency search | 4s-5s   |
| Pro       | $9                     | Fresh search       | 45s-70s |

### Chat API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for                                | Latency | Basis     |
| --------- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------- | --------- |
| Speed     | $5                     | Low-latency, web-based chat completions | <5s     | Citations |
Processor

Cost (per 1K requests)

Best for

Latency

Max Fields

Basis

Lite

$5

Basic information retrieval

5s-45s

2

Citations, Reasoning

Base

$10

Simple web research

10s-80s

5

Citations, Reasoning

Core

$30

Complex web research

45s-160s

10

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Pro

$100

Exploratory web research

60s-8min

20

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra

$300

Advanced deep research

5-12min

20

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra2x

$600

Difficult deep research

8-15min

25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra4x

$1,200

Very difficult deep research

8-20min

25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra8x

$2,400

Most difficult deep research

8-20min

25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

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## Scale with pre-determined cost

Parallel APIs are priced per request, not per token. You always know the exact cost of a query before you run it.

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Highest quality at every price point

State of the art across several benchmarks

BrowseComp WISER-SearchWISER-AtomicSimpleQA

CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Linear scale.

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BrowseComp benchmark analysis: CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Linear scale. . Evaluation shows Parallel's enterprise deep research API for AI agents achieving up to 48% accuracy, outperforming GPT-4 browsing (1%), Claude search (6%), Exa (14%), and Perplexity (8%). Enterprise-grade structured deep research performance across Cost (CPM) and Accuracy (%). State-of-the-art enterprise deep research API with structured data extraction built for ChatGPT deep research and complex multi-hop AI agent workflows.

### About the benchmark

This benchmark, created by OpenAI, contains 1,266 questions requiring multi-hop reasoning, creative search formulation, and synthesis of contextual clues across time periods. Read our blog here[here]($https://parallel.ai/blog/deep-research).

### Steps of reasoning

100% Multi-Hop questions

### Parallel 600/1200

Parallel 600 and 1200 are agents with the same architecture as Parallel Ultra (which costs 300 USD for 1000 queries), but with 2x and 4x the compute and cost.

## Highest quality at every price point

State of the art across several benchmarks

### BrowseComp Scaled Compute Benchmark 

| Series    | Model                     | Cost (CPM) | Accuracy  (%) |
| --------- | ------------------------- | ---------- | ------------- |
| Parallel  | Base                      | 10         | 4             |
| Parallel  | Core                      | 25         | 7             |
| Parallel  | Pro                       | 100        | 17            |
| Parallel  | Ultra                     | 300        | 27            |
| Parallel  | Parallel 600              | 600        | 39            |
| Parallel  | Parallel 1200             | 1200       | 48            |
| Others    | GPT-4.1 w/ browsing       | 53         | 1             |
| Others    | Claude Sonnet 4 w/ search | 1168       | 6             |
| Others    | Exa Research              | 275        | 14            |
| Others    | Perplexity Deep Research  | 880        | 8             |

CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Linear scale.

### About the benchmark

This benchmark, created by OpenAI, contains 1,266 questions requiring multi-hop reasoning, creative search formulation, and synthesis of contextual clues across time periods. Read our blog here[here]($https://parallel.ai/blog/deep-research).

### Steps of reasoning

100% Multi-Hop questions

### Parallel 600/1200

Parallel 600 and 1200 are agents with the same architecture as Parallel Ultra (which costs 300 USD for 1000 queries), but with 2x and 4x the compute and cost.

### Search MCP Benchmark (LP) 

| Series    | Model    | Cost (CPM) | Accuracy (%) |
| --------- | -------- | ---------- | ------------ |
| Parallel  | GPT 4.1  | 21         | 74.9         |
| Parallel  | o4 mini  | 90         | 82.14        |
| Parallel  | o3       | 192        | 80.61        |
| Parallel  | sonnet 4 | 92         | 78.57        |
| Native    | GPT 4.1  | 27         | 70           |
| Native    | o4 mini  | 190        | 77           |
| Native    | o3       | 351        | 79.08        |
| Native    | sonnet 4 | 122        | 68.83        |
| Exa       | GPT 4.1  | 40         | 58.67        |
| Exa       | o4 mini  | 199        | 61.73        |
| Exa       | o3       | 342        | 56.12        |
| Exa       | sonnet 4 | 140        | 67.13        |

CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Linear scale.

### About this benchmark

This benchmark, created by Parallel, blends WISER-Fresh and WISER-Atomic. WISER-Fresh is a set of 76 queries requiring the freshest data from the web, generated by Parallel with o3 pro. WISER-Atomic is a set of 120 hard real-world business queries, based on use cases from Parallel customers. Read our blog here[here]($https://parallel.ai/blog/search-api-benchmark).

### Distribution

40% WISER-Fresh
60% WISER-Atomic

### Evaluation

The Parallel Search API was evaluated by comparing three different web search solutions (Parallel MCP server, Exa MCP server/tool calling, LLM native web search) across four different LLMs (GPT 4.1, O4-mini, O3, Claude Sonnet 4).

### WISER-Atomic

| Series   | Model          | Cost (CPM) | Accuracy (%) |
| -------- | -------------- | ---------- | ------------ |
| Parallel | Core           | 25         | 77           |
| Parallel | Base           | 10         | 75           |
| Parallel | Lite           | 5          | 64           |
| Others   | o3             | 45         | 69           |
| Others   | 4.1 mini low   | 25         | 63           |
| Others   | gemini 2.5 pro | 36         | 56           |
| Others   | sonar pro high | 16         | 64           |
| Others   | sonar low      | 5          | 48           |

CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Log scale.

### About the benchmark

This benchmark, created by Parallel, contains 121 questions intended to reflect real-world web research queries across a variety of domains. Read our blog here[here]($https://parallel.ai/blog/parallel-task-api).

### Steps of reasoning

50% Multi-Hop questions
50% Single-Hop questions

### Distribution

40% Financial Research
20% Sales Research
20% Recruitment
20% Miscellaneous

### SimpleQA

| Series   | Model            | Cost (CPM) | Accuracy (%) |
| -------- | ---------------- | ---------- | ------------ |
| Parallel | Lite             | 5          | 92           |
| Parallel | Base             | 10         | 94           |
| Parallel | Core             | 25         | 94           |
| Others   | o3 high          | 56         | 92           |
| Others   | 4.1 mini high    | 30         | 88           |
| Others   | gemini 2.5 flash | 35         | 91           |
| Others   | sonar            | 8          | 81           |
| Others   | sonar pro        | 13         | 84           |

CPM: USD per 1000 requests. Cost is shown on a Log scale.

### About the benchmark

This benchmark contains 4,326 questions focused on short, fact-seeking queries across a variety of domains. Read our blog here[here]($https://parallel.ai/blog/parallel-task-api).

### Steps of reasoning

100% Single-Hop questions

### Distribution

36% Culture
20% Science and Technology
16% Politics
28% Miscellaneous