Pricing
# Pay as you go
Run up to 16,000 requests for free
| | Task API | Search API | Extract API | Chat API | Monitor API | Find All API | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | | Inputs | Existing structured data, Question | Search objective, Keywords | URL, Extract objective | Question | Query, Frequency | Query | | Outputs | Deep research, Structured enrichments | Ranked URLs, Compressed excerpts | Full page contents, Compressed excerpts | Free text, Structured JSON | New events | Matches | | Best for | Deep research, database enrichment,or workflow automation | Web search tool calls for AI agents | URL content extraction | Interactive chat apps and UX | Continuous monitoring of changes on the web | Finding all entities matching specific criteria | | Latency | 5s - 30min, asynchronous | < 5s, synchronous | < 3s, synchronous | < 5s, synchronous | Asynchronous | 10min-1hr,asynchronous | | Basis | Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts | — | — | Citations | Citations | Citations, reasoning, confidence, excerpts | | Rate limits | 2,000 requests / min | 600 requests / min | 600 requests / min | 300 requests / min | 300 requests / min | 25 / hr | | Security | SOC2 | SOC2 | SOC2 | SOC2 | SOC2 | SOC2 | | Price per request | $0.005 - $2.4 | $.005 for 10 results | $0.001 | $0.005 | $.003 | $.03 - $1 per match |
Task API
Deep web research with structured outputs, optimized for quality & freshness
Search API
Ranked web URLs with token dense compressed excerpts
Extract API
Directly extract web page contents
Chat API
Fast, web-researched LLM completions
Monitor API
Track changes to any events on the web
Find All API
Create structured datasets from any text query
## Enterprise
Built for scalable, reliable, enterprise workloads
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- - Custom data retention agreements
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- - Custom rate limits
- - Early access to new products
- - Dedicated onboarding and technical support
## Allocate compute based on task complexity
Parallel lets you easily flex compute based on the complexity of your task
## Pricing breakdown
### Task API
| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for | Latency | Max Fields | Basis | | --------- | ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------ | | Lite | $5 | Basic information retrieval | 5s-60s | ~2 | Citations, Reasoning | | Base | $10 | Simple web research | 15s-100s | ~5 | Citations, Reasoning | | Core | $25 | Complex web research | 1min-5min | ~10 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Core2x | $50 | Very complex web research | 2min-5min | ~10 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Pro | $100 | Exploratory web research | 3min-9min | ~20 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Ultra | $300 | Extensive deep research | 5min-25min | ~20 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Ultra2x | $600 | Advanced deep research with 2x compute | 5min-25min | ~25 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Ultra4x | $1,200 | Advanced deep research with 4x compute | 8min-30min | ~25 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence | | Ultra8x | $2,400 | Advanced deep research with 8x compute | 8min-30min | ~25 | Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence |
### Search API
| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests with 10 results) | Cost (per 1K additional results) | Best for | Latency | | --------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------- | ------- | | Search | $5 | $1 | High accuracy search | 2s-5s |
### Extract API
| Processor | Cost (per 1K results) | Best for | Latency | | --------- | --------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | | Extract | $1 | Direct webpage content extraction | 1s-3s (cached), 60s-90s (live) |
### Chat API
| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for | Latency | Basis | | --------- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------- | --------- | | Speed | $5 | Low-latency, web-based chat completions | <5s | Citations |
### Monitor API
| Processor | Cost (per 1K requests) | Best for | Frequency | Basis | | --------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | --------- | | Monitor | $3 | Continuous monitoring of changes on the web | Hourly / Daily / Weekly | Citations |
### Find All API
| Processor | Fixed Cost | Cost Per Match | Best for | | --------- | ---------- | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Base | $0.25 | $0.03 | Broad, common queries where you expect many matches | | Core | $2.00 | $0.15 | Specific queries with moderate expected matches | | Pro | $10.00 | $1.00 | Highly specific queries with rare or hard-to-find matches | | Preview | $0.10 | $0.00 | Testing queries (~10 candidates) |
Cost (per 1K requests)
Best for
Latency
Max Fields
Basis
$5
Basic information retrieval
5s-60s
~2
Citations, Reasoning
$10
Simple web research
15s-100s
~5
Citations, Reasoning
$25
Complex web research
1min-5min
~10
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$50
Very complex web research
2min-5min
~10
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$100
Exploratory web research
3min-9min
~20
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$300
Extensive deep research
5min-25min
~20
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$600
Advanced deep research with 2x compute
5min-25min
~25
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$1,200
Advanced deep research with 4x compute
8min-30min
~25
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
$2,400
Advanced deep research with 8x compute
8min-30min
~25
Citations, Reasoning, Excerpts, Confidence
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## Scale with predictable cost
Parallel APIs are priced per request, not per token. You always know the exact cost of a query before you run it.
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