Memoh web search after Bing and Google

The change is one field per provider

Memoh's Google and Bing providers call their "Base URL" when it is set and the vendor's address when it is empty. Open Web Search in the Memoh sidebar and edit the provider. Google, before and after:

Web Search > Search, provider type Google

API Key:                <your Google key>
Search Engine ID (cx):  <your engine ID>
Base URL:               https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1

Web Search > Search, provider type Google

API Key:                <your SpecStream key>
Search Engine ID (cx):  any
Base URL:               https://api.specstream.ai/customsearch/v1

Memoh refuses a Google search with an empty cx, so give any value: SpecStream accepts cx and does not use it. Bing, before and after:

Web Search > Search, provider type Bing

API Key:   <your Bing key>
Base URL:  https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search

Web Search > Search, provider type Bing

API Key:   <your SpecStream key>
Base URL:  https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search

The same JSON, so Memoh's parser reads it

Memoh's Google provider sends q, cx, num and key and reads items[] with title, link and snippet. Its Bing provider sends q and count with the key in Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key and reads webPages.value[] with name, url and snippet. SpecStream answers both in those shapes. These are the two calls Memoh then sends:

curl "https://api.specstream.ai/customsearch/v1?key=$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY&cx=any&q=memoh+agents&num=5"

curl "https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search?q=memoh+agents&count=5" \
  -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"

The Bing call from Python, to see what the bot will get:

import os, requests

reply = requests.get(
    "https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search",
    params={"q": "memoh agents", "count": 5},
    headers={"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": os.environ["SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"]},
).json()

for page in reply["webPages"]["value"]:
    print(page["name"], page["url"], page["snippet"])

Every parameter and field of each route is in the Google Custom Search guide and the Bing Web Search v7 guide.

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

A search of up to 10 results costs $0.005. There is no monthly plan and no daily limit. Credit you buy never expires, and a new account starts with $10 of credit, which covers 2,000 searches. A busy call gets a 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing.

The most accurate web search API, in about one second

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.

Every drop-in call runs the fast search. Measured 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, the 95th percentile stayed between 1.09 and 1.73 s, and it answered 718 of 720. There is no limit per key and no daily limit.

You decide what is kept, on each key

Create the key with zero_retention and a search made with it keeps no request text and no answer after the reply. spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend, which suits a fleet of bots that search all day.

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 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. The most a run can cost is approved before it starts.

Google Custom Search, until January 1, 2027

Existing customers can keep Google's 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 costs the same $5 per 1,000, with no daily limit, behind the same field.

Brave Search

Brave's Search plan costs $5 per 1,000 requests, up to 50 queries per second, with $5 in free credits every month. SpecStream keeps your Google or Bing provider, at $5 per 1,000 and 97.9 on SimpleQA Verified.

Tavily

Tavily bills in credits at $0.008 each on pay as you go, and a basic search is 1 credit, so $8 per 1,000. Requests stop when the monthly credits run out. SpecStream is $5 per 1,000 with no daily limit.

Serper

Serper sells credits in packs, 50,000 for $50, valid for 6 months. SpecStream credit you buy never expires, at $0.005 a search.