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Pricing

# Pay as you go

Run up to 5,000 requests per month for free

|                   | Task API                                                  | Search API                          | Extract API                             | Decisions API                                            | Responses API                                                 | Monitor API                                 | Find All API                                    |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Inputs            | Existing structured data, Question                        | Search objective, Keywords          | URL, Extract objective                  | Context, Questions                                       | Question                                                      | Query, Frequency                            | Query                                           |
| Outputs           | Deep research, Structured enrichments                     | Ranked URLs, Compressed excerpts    | Full page contents, Compressed excerpts | Typed answers, Citations                                 | Free text, Structured JSON                                    | New events                                  | Matches                                         |
| Best for          | Deep research, database enrichment,or workflow automation | Web search tool calls for AI agents | URL content extraction                  | Data enrichment, lead qualification, or agent guardrails | Latency-sensitive research in products and research subagents | Continuous monitoring of changes on the web | Finding all entities matching specific criteria |
| Latency           | 5s - 30min, asynchronous                                  | 200ms - 3s, synchronous             | < 3s, synchronous                       | 200ms - 1s, synchronous                                  | 5s - 60s, synchronous                                         | Asynchronous                                | 10min - 1hr, asynchronous                       |
| Basis             | Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts                | —                                   | —                                       | Citations                                                | Citations                                                     | Citations                                   | Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts      |
| Rate limits       | 2,000 requests / min                                      | 600 requests / min                  | 600 requests / min                      | 600 requests / min                                       | 300 requests / min                                            | 300 requests / min                          | 25 / hr                                         |
| Security          | SOC2                                                      | SOC2                                | SOC2                                    | SOC2                                                     | SOC2                                                          | SOC2                                        | SOC2                                            |
| Price per request | $0.005 - $2.4                                             | $0.001 - $0.005 for 10 results      | $0.001                                  | $0.001 for up to 100 questions                           | $0.01 - $0.25                                                 | $0.003 - $0.01                              | $0.03 - $1 per match                            |

Earn up to $80 at signup + $5 in free credits per month

Earn up to $80 at signup + $5 in free credits per month

Task API

Deep web research with structured outputs, optimized for quality & freshness

Price per request:
$0.005 - $2.4
Task playground[Task playground]
TthenP
Inputs:
Existing structured dataQuestion
Outputs:
Deep researchStructured enrichments
Best for:
Deep research, database enrichment,or workflow automation
Latency:
5s - 30min, asynchronous
Basis:
Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts
Rate limits:
2,000 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Search API

Ranked web URLs with token dense compressed excerpts

Price per request:
$0.001 - $0.005
for 10 results
Search playground[Search playground]
SthenP
Inputs:
Search objectiveKeywords
Outputs:
Ranked URLsCompressed excerpts
Best for:
Web search tool calls for AI agents
Latency:
200ms - 3s, synchronous
Basis:
—
Rate limits:
600 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Extract API

Directly extract web page contents

Price per request:
$0.001
Extract playground[Extract playground]
EthenP
Inputs:
URLExtract objective
Outputs:
Full page contentsCompressed excerpts
Best for:
URL content extraction
Latency:
< 3s, synchronous
Basis:
—
Rate limits:
600 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Decisions API

Typed answers grounded in web evidence

Price per request:
$0.001
for up to 100 questions
Decisions playground[Decisions playground]
IthenP
Inputs:
ContextQuestions
Outputs:
Typed answersCitations
Best for:
Data enrichment, lead qualification, or agent guardrails
Latency:
200ms - 1s, synchronous
Basis:
Citations
Rate limits:
600 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Responses API

Cited answers from the live web in seconds, OpenAI-compatible

Price per request:
$0.01 - $0.25
View docs[View docs]
RthenD
Inputs:
Question
Outputs:
Free textStructured JSON
Best for:
Latency-sensitive research in products and research subagents
Latency:
5s - 60s, synchronous
Basis:
Citations
Rate limits:
300 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Monitor API

Track changes to any events on the web

Price per request:
$0.003 - $0.01
Monitor playground[Monitor playground]
MthenP
Inputs:
QueryFrequency
Outputs:
New events
Best for:
Continuous monitoring of changes on the web
Latency:
Asynchronous
Basis:
Citations
Rate limits:
300 requests / min
Security:
SOC2

Find All API

Create structured datasets from any text query

Price per request:
$0.03 - $1
per match
Find All playground[Find All playground]
FthenP
Inputs:
Query
Outputs:
Matches
Best for:
Finding all entities matching specific criteria
Latency:
10min - 1hr, asynchronous
Basis:
Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts
Rate limits:
25 / hr
Security:
SOC2

## Enterprise

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## Allocate compute based on task complexity

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

## Pricing breakdown

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-60s     | ~2         | Citations, Reasoning                       |
| Base      | $10                    | Simple web research                    | 15s-100s   | ~5         | Citations, Reasoning                       |
| Core      | $25                    | Complex web research                   | 1min-5min  | ~10        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Core2x    | $50                    | Very complex web research              | 2min-5min  | ~10        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Pro       | $100                   | Exploratory web research               | 3min-9min  | ~20        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra     | $300                   | Extensive deep research                | 5min-25min | ~20        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra2x   | $600                   | Advanced deep research with 2x compute | 5min-25min | ~25        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra4x   | $1,200                 | Advanced deep research with 4x compute | 8min-30min | ~25        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
| Ultra8x   | $2,400                 | Advanced deep research with 8x compute | 8min-30min | ~25        | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |

### Search API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests with 10 results) | Cost (per 1K additional results) | Best for                                  | Latency |
| --------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------- |
| Turbo     | $1                                     | $1                               | Latency-sensitive, high-volume lookups    | ~200ms  |
| Fast      | $1                                     | $1                               | Interactive agents on a sub-second budget | ~700ms  |
| Basic     | $5                                     | $1                               | Longer excerpts per source in one call    | ~1s     |
| Advanced  | $5                                     | $1                               | Multi-hop background research agents      | ~3s     |

### Extract API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K results) | Best for                          | Latency                        |
| --------- | --------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Extract   | $1                    | Direct webpage content extraction | 1s-3s (cached), 60s-90s (live) |

### Responses API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for                                               | Latency | Basis     |
| --------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------- |
| Low       | $10                    | Simple fact-retrieval questions                        | ~5–10s  | Citations |
| Medium    | $50                    | Complex, multi-hop fact-retrieval                      | ~15–20s | Citations |
| High      | $250                   | Deep research requiring extensive search and synthesis | ~30–60s | Citations |

### Monitor API

| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for                                                 | Frequency               | Basis     |
| --------- | ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | --------- |
| Lite      | $3                     | Narrow queries — a single entity, domain, or signal type | Hourly / Daily / Weekly | Citations |
| Base      | $10                    | Wide queries — entity classes, topic areas, regions      | Hourly / Daily / Weekly | Citations |

### Find All API

| Processor | Fixed Cost | Cost Per Match | Best for                                                  |
| --------- | ---------- | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Base      | $0.25      | $0.03          | Broad, common queries where you expect many matches       |
| Core      | $2.00      | $0.15          | Specific queries with moderate expected matches           |
| Pro       | $10.00     | $1.00          | Highly specific queries with rare or hard-to-find matches |
| Preview   | $0.10      | $0.00          | Testing queries (~10 candidates)                          |
Processor

Cost (per 1K requests)

Best for

Latency

Max Fields

Basis

Lite

$5

Basic information retrieval

5s-60s

~2

Citations, Reasoning

Base

$10

Simple web research

15s-100s

~5

Citations, Reasoning

Core

$25

Complex web research

1min-5min

~10

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Core2x

$50

Very complex web research

2min-5min

~10

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Pro

$100

Exploratory web research

3min-9min

~20

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra

$300

Extensive deep research

5min-25min

~20

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra2x

$600

Advanced deep research with 2x compute

5min-25min

~25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra4x

$1,200

Advanced deep research with 4x compute

8min-30min

~25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

Ultra8x

$2,400

Advanced deep research with 8x compute

8min-30min

~25

Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence

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