Serper migration

The whole migration is the base address and the key

Your code keeps Serper's body, its header name and its parser. The base address changes, and the key in X-API-KEY.

# Before
curl -X POST https://google.serper.dev/search \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $SERPER_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "open source vector databases", "num": 10, "page": 1}'

# After
curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/serper/search \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "open source vector databases", "num": 10, "page": 1}'

The reply has Serper's shape: organic[] with title, link, snippet and position, and answerBox.answer when the search has an answer. LangChain's Serper wrapper sends its fields in the query string of a POST, and the route reads them there too.

What the reply leaves out

The route serves web search. knowledgeGraph, peopleAlsoAsk and relatedSearches are not in the reply, and the images, news, maps and other typed paths are not served. credits is always 1, so read the price of a call from specstream.price_usd.

A refusal keeps Serper's shape, message and statusCode, with a code. A missing key is a 401, an empty balance a 402, and a busy minute a 429 with Retry-After that charges nothing.

$5 per 1,000, from the whole live web

Serper's packs run from $1.00 to $0.30 per 1,000 credits, and the credits are valid for 6 months. SpecStream charges $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, reads the whole live web at the moment of the call, and the credit you buy never expires. New accounts start with $10 of credit, no card, which covers 2,000 searches. Every rate is on the pricing page.

The most accurate web search API in the world

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

About one second a search, measured under load

Every drop-in route runs the fast search unless the call asks for page text, the answer or results past the first ten. On November 9, 2026 production took 1 to 20 fast searches a second and answered 718 of 720: the median was 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, and the 95th percentile stayed between 1.09 and 1.73 s. One account takes up to 8,800 searches a minute; a call over that gets a 429 with Retry-After and is not charged.

You decide what is kept, on each key

Create a key with zero_retention and a search made with it keeps no request text and no answer after the reply: it is not in the history, its answer is not reused for another call, and its log lines carry neither. spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend.

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 same key calls GET /v1/web-search, which returns up to 100 results for one search and an answer with the page it was read from. It 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 returns every match for a request in plain words as 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.

Brave Search API

A search API on Brave's own index: $5 per 1,000 requests on the Search plan, with $5 in free credits every month and 50 queries per second. SpecStream answers Brave's call at https://api.specstream.ai/res/v1/web/search at the same $5 per 1,000 searches.

SerpApi

Search engine result pages as JSON, sold month to month: Starter is $25 a month for 1,000 searches, with 200 successful searches per hour. On SpecStream $25 pays for 5,000 searches with no monthly plan.

Tavily

A search API at $0.008 a credit on pay as you go: a basic search costs 1 credit and an advanced search 2. SpecStream answers Tavily's call at https://api.specstream.ai/tavily at $0.005 a search.

Exa

A search API from $4 per 1,000 requests on lite and $7 per 1,000 on auto and fast. SpecStream answers Exa's call at https://api.specstream.ai/exa and scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions.

Firecrawl

Search and scrape by monthly plan: Hobby is $19 a month for 5,000 credits and Standard $99 a month for 100,000. SpecStream answers Firecrawl's search and scrape at https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl and charges from a balance, $0.005 a search and $0.0008 a page.