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What is the AI Search API?

The AI Search API is a single endpoint for querying the major consumer AI search engines and getting back the answer users actually see — plus the structured evidence behind it — as clean JSON. Every capture comes from a real browser driving the live AI apps, not the sanitized model API. So you get what a real person would read: the rendered answer, the sources it cited, the follow-up queries it ran, the brands it named, and which model produced it.

The answer users see

The actual rendered response — as text and markdown — from the live app, not a model endpoint.

The evidence behind it

Cited sources with character ranges, follow-up queries, brand mentions, shopping, and ads.

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Base URL and auth

https://api.aisearchapi.dev
Every request needs a bearer token and JSON content type: 
Authorization: Bearer $AISEARCH_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json
New accounts start with 500 free credits, no card required. See Authentication to get your key.

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One call, every surface

Send one request naming the surfaces you want. The API fans out — running each surface (and region) in parallel — and hands you the same Envelope shape for every one. Integrate the shape once, and every AI search engine looks the same to your code. 
curl https://api.aisearchapi.dev/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AISEARCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "best crm for startups",
    "surfaces": ["chatgpt", "perplexity", "claude"]
  }'
That returns a 202 with a parent job and one child per surface × region: 
{
  "jobId": "job_8t2q",
  "status": "processing",
  "children": ["job_8t2q.chatgpt.us", "job_8t2q.perplexity.us", "job_8t2q.claude.us"]
}
Read each child to get its Envelope, or register a webhook and skip polling entirely. Want a single surface inline? Add ?mode=sync for a 200 with the result in the response.

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Why use it

Every AI search engine has a different UI, a different structure, and no clean way to read it programmatically. Building that yourself means N brittle integrations that break every time an app ships a redesign. The AI Search API collapses that into one contract: one request, one response shape, every surface. You skip the per-provider integrations and the maintenance that comes with them, and get straight to the answers and evidence.

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Supported surfaces

SurfaceEnum valueCredits
ChatGPTchatgpt5
Claudeclaude6
Perplexityperplexity3
Geminigemini4
Copilotcopilot5
Google AI Overviewgoogle_ai_overview5
Google AI Modegoogle_ai_mode4
Credits are charged only on a successful capture — an empty or failed capture costs nothing.
On the roadmap, not yet requestable: Meta AI, DeepSeek, Amazon Rufus, and Grok.

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Next steps

Quickstart

Your first search in a few minutes — from key to Envelope.

Authentication

Get an API key and send authenticated requests.

The Envelope

The canonical response shape: answer, evidence, and provenance.

API Reference

Every endpoint, parameter, and field.