Bing Search API key

A new key and one changed line

Your code keeps its path, its parameters, its header and its parser. The address changes, and the key.

# Before
curl -G https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search \
  -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $BING_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "q=Who founded Mistral AI and when?" -d count=10

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search \
  -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "q=Who founded Mistral AI and when?" -d count=10

The reply has Bing's shape: _type, queryContext, webPages.value[] with name, url, displayUrl, snippet and datePublished when the page gives one, and rankingResponse. dateLastCrawled is not returned.

The key carries its own limits

Each key has its scopes, a spending limit and, when you want it, zero retention. A key that searches is made with this body, in the workspace or with POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys:

{
  "name": "production",
  "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"],
  "spend_cap_cents": 500000,
  "zero_retention": true
}

With zero retention on, a search keeps no request text and no answer after the reply. The charge keeps the account, the key, the request ID, the price and the time.

$5 per 1,000 searches, against $14 per 1,000 transactions

Grounding with Bing Search costs $14 per 1,000 transactions. A SpecStream search of up to 10 results takes $0.005 from your balance, each started block of 10 more results adds $0.006, and count=50 costs $0.029. A call stopped by a 429 charges nothing. Credit you buy never expires.

The most accurate web search API, answering in about one second

SpecStream scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. On production on November 9, 2026, the search behind the v7 route had a median of 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, and answered 718 of 720 calls.

The same key reads pages and returns rows

The Extract API reads up to 20 pages or documents a call at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Deep Search returns every match for a request in plain words as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, and quotes the most a run can cost before it starts.

Grounding with Bing Search

Microsoft's named replacement, a tool inside Azure AI Agents. It costs $14 per 1,000 transactions, and developers have no access to the raw content it returns. A SpecStream key returns the results to your code, in Bing's JSON, at $0.005 a search.

Brave Search API

A search API on Brave's own index. Search costs $5 per 1,000 requests, with $5 in free credits every month and a capacity of 50 queries per second. Its reply has Brave's own shape. SpecStream answers the Bing call your code already sends.

SerpApi

A search results API sold in monthly plans. The Starter plan is $25 a month for 1,000 searches. On SpecStream $25 pays for 5,000 searches, and credit you buy never expires.

Tavily

A search API for agents, billed in credits. Pay as you go costs $0.008 a credit. SpecStream answers Tavily's call too, at https://api.specstream.ai/tavily/search, and the Bing call on the same key, for $0.005 a search.