Search infrastructure API
The routing layer between agents and the web.
One API for search, retrieval, crawling, and research. Automatically route every request to the best provider for quality, cost, speed, and freshness.
4
capabilities
12
providers
5
engines
0%
request markup
Catalog
Providers
| Provider | Engines | Latency p50 | Cost / 1k | Reliability | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exaexa | searchretrieveresearch | 480 ms | $7.00 | 94% | live |
| Brave Searchbrave | search | 260 ms | $5.00 | 96% | live |
| Firecrawlfirecrawl | crawlretrieve | 900 ms | $1.66 | 88% | live |
| Tavilytavily | searchretrieveresearch | 390 ms | $6.50 | 94% | live |
| Serperserper | search | 220 ms | $0.65 | 91% | live |
| Bing Web Searchbing | searchretrieve | 340 ms | $8.00 | 97% | dark |
| Linkuplinkup | searchretrieveresearch | 410 ms | $5.00 | 93% | live |
| Parallelparallel | research | 2800 ms | $10.00 | 91% | dark |
| Jina Readerjina | retrievecrawl | 380 ms | $0.50 | 90% | live |
| You.comyou | searchretrieve | 340 ms | $5.00 | 93% | live |
| Perplexity Sonarperplexity | research | 1700 ms | $8.00 | 94% | dark |
| Spiderspider | crawlretrieve | 360 ms | $0.10 | 89% | live |
Live route
Routing decision
After each playground response: rank, provider, score breakdown, outcome, fallback reason. Demo key is mock-only and hard-capped.
Playground
Bearer sk-demo-searchrouter
Demo traffic is mock-only and hard-capped. Sign in to issue a key. Live vendor adapters stay off until durable debit is configured.
Request
Call /search
# Bearer sk-sr_… · engine auto curl https://www.searchrouter.dev/api/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-sr_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "latest rust async runtime benchmarks", "engine": "auto", "sort": "freshness", "providers": { "order": ["serper","brave","you","linkup","exa"] } }'
Responses include id, routing, and usage.cost. Vendor errors stay internal. 429 returns Retry-After and X-RateLimit-*.
Prepaid
Credit packs
SearchRouter takes 10% when you buy a pack — not a per-request markup. Provider COGS still pass through as usage.cost. Economics.
Starter
$10
9,000 cr
after $1.00 fee
Builder
$50
45,000 cr
after $5.00 fee
Scale
$250
225,000 cr
after $25.00 fee
Workspace
Sign in. Create a key. Route.
Dashboard owns keys, the append-only credit ledger, and per-key rate limits. Playground demo stays mock until durable debit is configured.