Search the web

Parallel

Web search API that takes an objective and keyword queries and returns ranked pages with LLM-oriented excerpts.

Billing

Pricing model: Pay as you go, per request1
Free tier: Up to 5,000 requests a month free1
Card required for free tier: Not published
Minimum spend: Not published
Billing period: Not published
Free credits: Up to $80 at signup plus $5 a month1
Free MCP access without a key: web_search is free at lower rate limits, no key8

Prices

From the docs pricing page: turbo and fast $1, basic and advanced $5 per 1,000 requests with 10 results; extra results $1 per 1,000. No conversion needed. Requests default to advanced, so the default price is $5.

Mode	$ per 1,000 requests	Typical latency
`advanced` (default)	5	about 3 s
`basic`	5	about 1 s
`fast`	1	about 700 ms
`turbo`	1	about 200 ms
Each additional result beyond 10	1	-

Source2API pricing (docs)

Plans

Other endpoints listed as extras.

Item	Price
Image Search, `fast`	$1 per 1,000 requests
Image Search, `advanced`	$5 per 1,000 requests
Extract	$1 per 1,000 URLs
Task API	$5 to $2,400 per 1,000 runs

Source2API pricing (docs)

Other charges

Spend limit: Monthly, set by organization admins; notify-only9
MCP usage billing: Calls with OAuth or an API key are billed at the API rates8

Read from Parallel Web Systems’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/parallel.md