Search API Pricing
Pay per retrieval with transparent CPM (Cost Per Mille) pricing for search results.Cost Control
Set your maximum price for a thousand retrievals (CPM) to maintain full control over your spending:max_price
you set.
If your max price is too low, you will receive a partial success response with a warning:
Search Pricing Tiers
Data Source Type | Price (per 1k retrievals) | What You Get |
---|---|---|
Open Databases | $0.50 | Full-text multimodal content from sources like arXiv, Wikipedia, PubMed, and more |
Web Search | $1.50 | Fresh, full-text web content from across the internet |
Financial & Market Data | $8.00 | Real-time equities, crypto, and market data - complete datasets, not snippets |
Proprietary Databases | $30-50 | Licensed reference materials, academic journals, books, and other premium sources |
Content API Pricing
Pay per successful URL with simple, transparent pricing for content extraction.Content Pricing Tiers
Feature | Price per URL | Description |
---|---|---|
Base Extraction | $0.001 | Clean content extraction from web pages |
AI Processing | +$0.001 | Any AI feature (summarization or structured extraction) |
Failed URLs | $0.00 | No charge for unsuccessful extractions |
Fair Pricing Model
Only pay for URLs that are successfully processed - failed extractions cost nothing.Pricing Examples
Basic Extraction (10 URLs)- Base extraction: 10 × $0.001 = $0.01
- Total: $0.01
- Base extraction: 5 × $0.001 = $0.005
- AI processing: 5 × $0.001 = $0.005
- Total: $0.01
- Successful URLs: 8 × $0.001 = $0.008
- Failed URLs: 2 × $0.00 = $0.00
- Total: $0.008
Answer API Pricing
Dual pricing model with separate costs for search data retrieval and AI processing. The Answer API combines real-time search with AI processing, giving you intelligent responses instead of raw search results.Pricing Structure
Search Data Costs- Same pricing as Search API (see above) based on data source types
- Controlled by
data_max_price
parameter (CPM)
- $12 per million tokens for AI analysis and response generation
- Includes both input tokens (search results) and output tokens (AI response)
- Separate from search data costs
How to Calculate Your Final Price
To estimate your total cost for an Answer API request, simply add the search data cost and the AI processing cost: Search Data Cost = (Number of results × Price per 1k retrievals) AI Processing Cost = (Number of tokens × Price per million tokens) Total Cost = Search Data Cost + AI Processing CostPricing Examples
Basic Web Query- Search data: ~10 results × $1.50/1000 = $0.015
- AI processing: ~2000 tokens × $12/1M = $0.024
- Total: ~$0.039
- Search data: ~5 papers × $1/1000 = $0.005
- AI processing: ~4000 tokens × $12/1M = $0.048
- Total: ~$0.053
- Search data: ~8 results × $8/1000 = $0.064
- AI processing: ~3000 tokens × $12/1M = $0.036
- Total: ~$0.10