
Parallel provides web search and data APIs built for AI agents.
Index by Parallel addresses the relationship between content owners and AI systems that retrieve their work. Its published workflow asks owners to register a domain and connect content, then tracks contribution when Parallel's infrastructure uses that content in a response.
The program describes compensation based on contribution to an answer rather than a single negotiated flat fee. It targets independent writers, publishers, data providers, and AI companies, alongside Parallel's developer-facing APIs for accessing and researching web information.
Parallel offers separate APIs for searching the public web, extracting page contents, generating cited answers, and running asynchronous research. Search returns ranked URLs and compressed excerpts, while Extract accepts URLs and retrieves full contents or excerpts for downstream applications.
Task supports research and structured enrichment workflows, Responses produces cited answers for synchronous interactions, and Monitor tracks web events over time. FindAll assembles matching entities into datasets, giving developers different interfaces for retrieval, reasoning, and discovery.
Parallel's research interfaces can return citations, reasoning, confidence information, and excerpts alongside structured findings. The published pricing table distinguishes these evidence fields by processor, giving developers explicit information about which research outputs a chosen option supplies.
Its API portfolio separates fast retrieval, page reading, cited answers, longer-running research, scheduled monitoring, and dataset discovery. Applications can select an interface and processing depth for a particular workflow while using a common provider for the underlying web access capabilities.
Parallel charges according to API usage rather than generated tokens, with request pricing for Search, Extract, Task, Responses, and Monitor. FindAll combines a fixed run charge with a charge for each match, linking its cost to the dataset a search produces.
The pricing page separates processors by research depth and expected latency, allowing developers to choose between quick retrieval and longer-running analysis. Free monthly credits and signup credits support evaluation, and a contact route serves customers seeking a demonstration.