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Octen Search API

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By Octen Inc.

Octen is a real-time web search and retrieval API for AI models, agents and apps, returning ranked results with LLM-ready highlights and optional full content.

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What it does
  • Octen is a real-time web search and retrieval API for AI models, agents and apps, returning ranked results with LLM-ready highlights and optional full content.
More detail
  • It also offers clean Markdown extraction from any URL and text/multimodal embedding APIs.
  • Vendor-cited benchmarks position it as an alternative to general search APIs for teams that need current web data without crawling pages themselves.
Best for
  • AI agent builders and LLM/RAG teams that need low-latency, real-time web grounding, plus news, business or local place lookup.
More detail
  • Teams wanting clean URL-to-Markdown extraction and text/multimodal embeddings in the same API.
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.
More detail
  • Search is $0.10/1k (Pulse lite) or $0.20/1k (Pulse standard); Web and Broad $1/1k (promotional from $5/1k); News $3/1k; Business, Pla
Main limitation
  • Teams needing video search at launch, since it is invite-only early access.
More detail
  • 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.
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About

  • Octen is a real-time web search and retrieval API for AI models, agents and apps, returning ranked results with LLM-ready highlights and optional full content.
  • It also offers clean Markdown extraction from any URL and text/multimodal embedding APIs.
  • Vendor-cited benchmarks position it as an alternative to general search APIs for teams that need current web data without crawling pages themselves.

What it helps with

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OfferingAvailableDetail
Web Search API YesReturns ranked results with highlights and optional full content; supports domain, time and language filters.
Pulse Search low-latency mode YesLite and standard modes returning up to 10 URLs plus titles; cited at roughly 10–23 ms P50.
Broad Search parallel sub-queries YesAutomatically decomposes one query into parallel sub-query result groups.
URL-to-Markdown extraction YesExtract API returns clean Markdown, intent-focused highlights and page classification; failed URLs are free.
Text and multimodal embeddings YesEmbedding (0.6B/4B/8B) and VL Embedding APIs; vendor-claimed #1 RTEB and MMEB-v2 rankings are not independently verified.
Video Search LimitedInvite-only early access; access must be requested via support@octen.ai.
MCP and CLI access YesUsable as a Claude Code Skill, over MCP in any MCP client, or from the CLI with one API key.
Self-hosted or on-prem deployment UnknownNo self-hosting, on-prem or in-region option is described on cited pages.
Zero Data Retention LimitedOffered only on the Enterprise plan.

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