LazyLLM Google search after January 1, 2027

The change is one argument

LazyLLM describes itself as "a low-code development tool for building" multi-agent LLM applications, and GoogleSearch is one of the search tools its agents call. The tool sends its request to base_url and puts the key in the key parameter. Before and after, in the constructor:

from lazyllm.tools.tools import GoogleSearch

# Before: Google's address, the default
google = GoogleSearch(
    custom_search_api_key="<your Google key>",
    search_engine_id="<your engine ID>",
)

import os
from lazyllm.tools.tools import GoogleSearch

# After: SpecStream answers the same call
google = GoogleSearch(
    custom_search_api_key=os.environ["SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"],
    search_engine_id="any",
    base_url="https://api.specstream.ai/customsearch/v1",
)

for result in google.search("web data api"):
    print(result["title"], result["url"])

The tool sends cx from search_engine_id, and SpecStream accepts cx without using it, so any value works. Your agent keeps the tool, its name and its result format: each result still carries title, url, snippet and source.

Google's JSON, so the tool's parser reads it

GoogleSearch.search reads items from the reply and takes title, link and snippet from each one. SpecStream returns items[] with those fields in Google's shape, with searchInformation.totalResults and queries.nextPage. The route honours q, num, start, hq, exactTerms, orTerms, excludeTerms, siteSearch and siteSearchFilter.

The call the tool makes, in Python with requests:

import os, requests

reply = requests.get(
    "https://api.specstream.ai/customsearch/v1",
    params={"key": os.environ["SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"], "cx": "any", "q": "web data api", "num": 10},
).json()

for item in reply["items"]:
    print(item["title"], item["link"], item["snippet"])

Every parameter and field of the route is in the Google Custom Search guide. LazyLLM's BingSearch moves the same way, by its endpoint: see LazyLLM after the Bing Search API.

$5 per 1,000 searches, with no daily limit

A search of up to 10 results costs $0.005, and GoogleSearch always asks for 10. There is no monthly plan and no daily limit. Credit you buy never expires, and a new account starts with $10 of credit, enough for 2,000 searches. A call stopped by a 429 charges nothing.

The most accurate web search API, in about one second

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, with 978 correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The method behind each score is on the benchmarks page.

Every drop-in call runs the fast search. On production on November 9, 2026, its median was 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, its 95th percentile stayed between 1.09 and 1.73 s, and it answered 718 of 720 calls.

You decide what is kept, on each key

A key made with zero_retention keeps no request text and no answer after the reply. spend_cap_cents sets the most the key can spend, so an agent loop has a ceiling.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "production", "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"], "spend_cap_cents": 500000, "zero_retention": true}'

Search, pages and rows on one key

The key that searches also reads up to 20 pages or documents a call with the Extract API, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not charged. Deep Search turns a request in plain words into structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value, and the most a run can cost is approved before it starts.

Google Custom Search, until January 1, 2027

Existing customers can keep the default base_url until Google ends the API: $5 per 1,000 queries after 100 free a day, up to 10,000 a day. A new project gets no key. SpecStream charges the same $5 per 1,000 with no daily limit, behind one argument.

Agent Search (Vertex AI Search)

Google's named alternative, for searching up to 50 domains, at $1.50 per 1,000 queries on Standard Edition. It is a different API with its own request, so GoogleSearch cannot call it. SpecStream searches the whole live web and answers the call the tool already sends.

LazyLLM's TavilySearch

A separate tool that calls https://api.tavily.com. Tavily bills in credits, $0.008 each on pay as you go and 1 credit a basic search, and on a monthly plan requests stop when the credits run out. SpecStream costs $0.005 a search, and its credit never expires.

LazyLLM's BingSearch

Microsoft retired the Bing Web Search API on August 11, 2025, so the tool's default address no longer answers. SpecStream answers Bing's v7 call too, in Bing's JSON, at the same $5 per 1,000.