Usage Based Pricing
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If you're building or learning, we want to help.
More Data, Fewer Limits
- Custom rate limits
- Access to all data sources
- Higher results per query
Enterprise-Grade Support
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Named account manager
- SLAs and MSAs
Custom Everything
- Volume discounts
- Custom data retention
- Early access to new APIs
We'll Build It With You
- Forward Deployed Engineers embedded in your team
- Custom Deep Research workflows and agents for your domain
- Custom data sources indexed for your vertical
- From proof of concept to production
Usage, explained
Search API Ranked results with full-text excerpts from web and proprietary sources | Contents API Clean content extraction from any URL | Answer API Search + AI synthesis for intelligent responses | DeepResearch API Multi-step research with comprehensive reports | |
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| Inputs | QueryMax_results Max_price | URLAI processing | Querydata_max_price | QueryResearch mode |
| Outputs | Ranked URLsFull-text excerpts | Full page contentSummaries | Free textStructured JSON | Research reportCitations |
| Best for | RAG pipelines, agent tool calls | Web content fetching, content ingestion | Chat apps, question answering | Deep research, comprehensive analysis |
| Latency | < 3s, synchronous | < 1-3s, synchronous, <5-8s synchronous with headless browsing | < 5s, synchronous | 5-90 min, asynchronous |
| Pricing | Per retrieval (CPM) $0.50–$30 by source | Per successful URL $0.001 + AI | Search costs + $12/M tokens | Fixed per task $0.10–$15 |
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Content Owners
This page reflects what developers pay for our search infrastructure. If you're a publisher or data provider, your content is licensed accordingly with full usage tracking and revenue share.
Included datasets
FAQs
You keep going. We'll charge you for the overage at your plan's rates. No service interruptions, no awkward emails. You'll see it in your dashboard.
Yes. Upgrade anytime and we'll prorate the difference. Downgrade takes effect next billing cycle.
Some data is free to access. Some we pay to license. Web and arXiv are cheap. SEC filings and patents cost more. Proprietary journals and premium databases cost the most. You pay for what you use — we're not hiding expensive sources behind a flat rate.
Per retrieval, priced by source type. Open sources like arXiv and PubMed are $0.50 per 1k. Web is $1.50 per 1k. Financial data is $8 per 1k. Proprietary databases run $30-50 per 1k. You can set a max price to cap what you spend per query.
Two meters running. First, you pay for the search data (same rates as Search API). Second, you pay for the AI processing — $12 per million tokens. A typical query costs a few cents.
Fixed per task based on how deep you want to go. Fast mode is $0.10, Standard is $0.50, Heavy is $1.50. Plus whatever the underlying search costs. No surprises — we return the exact cost in the response.
You don't get cut off. We charge overage at your plan's rate. You'll see it coming in the dashboard before it happens.