Search the web

Parallel

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

Addresses

REST API: https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search4
MCP server: https://mcp.parallel.ai/mcp8
OpenAPI spec: https://docs.parallel.ai/public-openapi.json13
Docs for agents: https://docs.parallel.ai/llms.txt13
Status page: https://status.parallel.ai13

Install

What	Command
MCP, Claude Code	`claude mcp add --transport http parallel https://mcp.parallel.ai/mcp`
MCP, Codex	`codex mcp add parallel --url https://mcp.parallel.ai/mcp`
MCP, Gemini CLI	`gemini extensions install https://github.com/parallel-web/search-mcp`
Python SDK	`pip install parallel-web`
TypeScript SDK	`npm install parallel-web`

Source8Parallel MCP

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