Parallel
Highest accuracy web search API purpose-built for AI agents
Parallel is a web search and research API engineered specifically for AI agents. It delivers production-ready outputs built on cross-referenced facts with minimal hallucination, predictable per-query pricing, and verifiable provenance for every atomic output. Powers millions of daily requests with SOC-II Type 2 certification.
Use Cases
- Autonomous market research: Deep research on competitors, pricing, and market trends without human analysts
- Real-time lead generation: Find all companies matching specific criteria and enrich with web data
- Self-updating knowledge bases: Monitor web for changes and automatically update internal databases
- Agent-powered content operations: Research topics, extract facts with citations, generate evidence-based content
- Autonomous due diligence: Research companies, founders, and market conditions for investment decisions
- Competitive intelligence monitoring: Track competitor announcements, product launches, and pricing changes
- Autonomous news tracking: Monitor web for specific topics and receive webhook alerts when changes detected
Key Features
Search API
Ranked web URLs with long, relevant content—<3s synchronous latency, purpose-built for AI tool calls
Task API
Deep web research with structured outputs—5s to 30min async processing with citations and confidence scores
Chat API
Fast, web-researched LLM completions with <5s latency and built-in citations
Extract API
Pull specific structured data from any web page with configurable excerpt length
FindAll API
Generate datasets from the web—find all entities matching custom criteria at scale
Monitor API
Continuous web monitoring with scheduled queries and webhook notifications—track competitors, news, or changes automatically (hourly/daily/weekly)
MCP Server Integration
Native Model Context Protocol servers for Search and Task—plug into any MCP-compatible agent
Evidence-Based Outputs
Every output includes citations, reasoning chains, confidence scores, and source excerpts
Predictable Pricing
Pay per query ($0.004-$2.40) not per token—budget accurately for autonomous operations