---
canonical: "https://www.softatlas.io/parallel-2/products/search-api"
name: "Search API"
provider: "Parallel"
review_count: 0
ai_powered: true
website: "https://parallel.ai/products/search"
updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Search API

By [Parallel](/parallel-2.md)

A web search API that provides agents with real-time access to fresh and relevant context from the web, enabling them to search billions of pages and extract key information.

## Features
- Provide real-time access to fresh web content
- Search billions of pages and extract key information
- Control latency and depth for optimized search results
- Return high-quality ranked excerpts for grounded reasoning
- Support multi-hop retrieval and compression for accuracy
- Declare semantic objectives instead of keywords
- Rank URLs for token relevancy
- Distill URLs into high-value tokens for optimal context

## Built for
DEVELOPERS, CUSTOMER_SUPPORT, OPERATIONS

## Alternatives on Soft Atlas
The closest alternatives to Search API on Soft Atlas are [Linkup](/linkup.md), [Search API](/keenable/products/search-api.md), [AI Web Search](/nimble/products/ai-web-search.md) and [Fast Search API](/scrapingbee/products/fast-search-api.md).

Source: https://www.softatlas.io/parallel-2/products/search-api