AnythingLLM web search

One field, and nothing to host

AnythingLLM sends its agent's searches to the SearXNG address exactly as you type it, adds q and format=json, and reads results[] with title, url and content. SpecStream answers that call in SearXNG's JSON. AnythingLLM adds no path, so the address ends in /search, and it sends no key header, so the key goes in the address.

# AnythingLLM: Settings, Agent Skills, Web Search
Provider               SearXNG
SearXNG API Base URL   https://api.specstream.ai/searxng/YOUR_SPECSTREAM_KEY/search

# The same address in the server's .env
AGENT_SEARXNG_API_URL=https://api.specstream.ai/searxng/YOUR_SPECSTREAM_KEY/search

This is the call your agent sends, and what comes back:

# The call AnythingLLM's agent sends: q and format=json added to your URL
curl "https://api.specstream.ai/searxng/$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY/search?q=latest+AnythingLLM+release&format=json"

# {"results": [{"title": "...", "url": "https://...", "content": "..."}, ...]}

The one provider field that takes an address

AnythingLLM fixes the address of Serper, Bing, Tavily, Exa, Brave, Perplexity, SerpApi, SearchApi, Serply and Firecrawl search in its code. Its Bing provider still calls api.bing.microsoft.com, which Microsoft retired on August 11, 2025. SearXNG API Base URL is the field that takes an address, so it is where SpecStream goes.

$0.005 a search, from a balance that never expires

Each search your agent makes returns 10 results and costs $0.005, which is $5 per 1,000. There is no monthly plan and no credit that resets. Credit you buy never expires, and a call stopped by a 429 charges nothing. A new account starts with $10 of credit, which covers 2,000 searches.

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 on the fast search. On November 9, 2026 production took 1, 5, 10 and 20 searches a second through it 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 can send 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

Give AnythingLLM 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 and its log lines carry neither. The charge keeps the account, the key, the request ID, the price and the time. 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}'

Every search reads the live web

SpecStream reads the web at the moment of the call, so a page published an hour ago can be in what your agent reads. Your workspace documents stay in AnythingLLM, and the agent gets fresh results from the web beside them.

Search, pages and rows on one key

The same key 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 takes a request in plain words and returns every match on the live web as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value.

Bing Search API

Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025, and AnythingLLM's Bing provider still calls the retired address. Microsoft's replacement, Grounding with Bing Search, costs $14 per 1,000 transactions inside Azure AI Agents. SpecStream answers your agents at $5 per 1,000 through the SearXNG field.

Brave Search API

A search API on Brave's own index at $5 per 1,000 requests, with $5 in free credits every month and 50 queries per second. SpecStream costs the same $5 per 1,000 and scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions.

Tavily

Search billed in credits at $0.008 each on pay as you go, with 1,000 free credits a month that reset on the first day of each month. A basic search is 1 credit and an advanced search 2. SpecStream charges $0.005 a search from a balance that never resets.

Serper

Search sold in credit packs: $1.00 per 1,000 in the pack of 50,000, with credits valid for 6 months and 2,500 free queries to start. SpecStream credit never expires, and every search reads the live web at the moment of the call.

Exa

A search API priced at $7 per 1,000 requests for auto and fast search. AnythingLLM fixes Exa's address in its code. SpecStream costs $5 per 1,000 searches and reaches your agents through the SearXNG field.