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Teams wanting clean URL-to-Markdown extraction and text/multimodal embeddings in the same API.","not_ideal_for":"Teams needing video search at launch, since it is invite-only early access. Teams needing self-hosted, on-prem or in-region deployment, since none is described. Teams wanting the cheapest per-call option for simple known-page lookups.","problems_solved":["Grounding AI answers in fresh web data, with content queryable in under 5 minutes of publication per vendor claims.","Avoiding a custom crawling and parsing pipeline, since search returns token-efficient highlights and full content direct","Reducing agent latency, with Pulse Search cited at roughly 10 ms lite and 23 ms standard server-side P50.","Running multi-angle research in one call through Broad Search parallel sub-queries.","Ingesting clean knowledge from arbitrary URLs as Markdown with highlights and page classification.","Supporting semantic retrieval and RAG with text and multimodal embeddings in one vector space."],"pricing":"Pay-as-you-go with credits deducted from a balance in real time, plus an optional monthly QPS plan that reserves search throughput but does not include usage credits. 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Preserve these costs and limits: pay-as-you-go credits plus an optional QPS plan that does not include usage credits; full content billed at $0.50/1k results beyond per-call free allowances; token-based embedding billing; Video Search invite-only; no stated self-hosting, data residency or customer service region; ZDR Enterprise-only; SOC 2 Type 2 displayed as an unlinked badge. Vendor-cited benchmark and leaderboard claims should be framed as vendor claims, not independently verified. 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