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What you get
- Real-time web search - the latest from across the internet.
- Specialised & proprietary sources - academic papers, SEC filings, clinical trials, patents, drug discovery, economic data, and many more.
- Financial data - stock prices, fundamentals, and market metrics.
- Intelligent ranking - only the most relevant results, ready to feed an LLM.
- Transparent pricing - pay per retrieval, no subscription required to start.
How Valyu fits your stack
One API key, four building blocks, one retrieval layer underneath - your agent reaches the web and proprietary sources through the same interface. Start with Search for retrieval you control, or hand the whole task to DeepResearch and get back a cited report.Get started
Quickstart
Get searching in minutes
API Reference
Explore endpoints and parameters
Integrations
MCP Server
Remote MCP for Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client
CLI
Search and research from your terminal
LM Studio
Web search for local LLMs
Slack
Scheduled research in Slack
Vercel AI SDK
Tools for the AI SDK
n8n
Valyu nodes for n8n workflows
Benchmarks
We outperform Google, Parallel, and Exa on SimpleQA and FreshQA, and across domain-specific benchmarks in finance, healthcare, and economics.
| Benchmark | Valyu | Parallel | Exa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreshQA (600 time-sensitive queries) | 79 % | 52 % | 24 % | 39 % | (valyu.ai) |
| SimpleQA (4,326 factual questions) | 94 % | 93 % | 91 % | 38 % | (valyu.ai) |
| Finance (120 finance questions) | 73 % | 67 % | 63 % | 55 % | (valyu.ai) |
| Economics (100 economics questions) | 73 % | 52 % | 45 % | 43 % | (valyu.ai) |
| MedAgent (562 complex medical queries) | 48 % | 42 % | 44 % | 45 % | (valyu.ai) |