One key to search
them all.

TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, live X posts through xAI, Hacker News, Facebook, Threads, Google results through Serper and SerpApi, Brave, Exa, Tavily, Perplexity, Linkup, Parallel, Jina, Firecrawl, Browserless and our own page reader, behind one metered API and one prepaid balance in dollars.

$ curl https://metasearch.sh/api/v1/search \    -H "Authorization: Bearer ms_live_…" \    -d '{"query": "how to evaluate RAG pipelines"}' {  "routing": {    "auto": {      "mode": "academic",      "reason": "Asked for research literature (p 0.96); used academic."    },    "served_by": "serper",    "attempts": [{ "provider": "serper", "outcome": "ok", "latency_ms": 412 }]  },  "results": [    { "title": "RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation", … },    { "title": "Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey", … },    { "title": "ARES: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems", … },    …  ],  "billing": { "charged_usd": 0.0015, "balance_usd": 9.9985 }}
0412 ms$0.0015

Where people talk, with the numbers.

Search TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, read whole Reddit and Hacker News threads, and pull any TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or Threads post with its views, likes, comments and transcript. Same key, same balance, from $0.00282 a call.

  • TikTokvideos, views, transcripts
  • Redditthreads with every comment
  • Instagramreels, plays, comments
  • YouTubevideos and full transcripts
  • Xlive posts
  • Hacker Newsstories and whole threads
  • Facebookposts and reels by URL
  • Threadsposts and replies by URL

Every engine on one bill.

13 engines plus TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Hacker News, Facebook and Threads across 13 modes, each priced per call from its own rate card.

  • TikTok videos

    TikTok

    • extract
    • social

    from $0.00282 a call

  • Reddit threads

    Reddit

    • extract
    • community

    from $0.00075 a call

  • Instagram reels and posts

    Instagram

    • extract
    • social

    from $0.00282 a call

  • YouTube videos

    YouTube

    • extract
    • social

    from $0.00282 a call

  • X search by Grok

    xAI

    • deep
    • social

    from $0.0675 a call

  • Hacker News discussions

    Hacker News

    • extract
    • community

    from $0.00075 a call

  • Facebook posts

    Facebook

    • extract

    from $0.00282 a call

  • Threads posts

    Threads

    • extract

    from $0.00282 a call

  • Google results

    Serper

    • general
    • news
    • academic
    • deep
    • scholar
    • patents
    • images
    • places

    from $0.0015 a call

  • neural search

    Exa

    • general
    • academic
    • people
    • deep
    • similar

    from $0.0105 a call

  • page reader

    Jina

    • general
    • extract

    from $0.000375 a call

  • independent web index

    Brave

    • general
    • news
    • deep

    from $0.0075 a call

  • search for agents

    Linkup

    • general
    • news
    • deep

    from $0.0075 a call

  • search for agents

    Parallel

    • general
    • news
    • deep

    from $0.0015 a call

  • search for agents

    Tavily

    • general
    • news
    • academic
    • deep

    from $0.012 a call

  • answer engine

    Perplexity

    • general
    • news
    • academic
    • deep

    from $0.0075 a call

  • page reader

    Firecrawl

    • general
    • extract

    from $0.0075 a call

  • Google results

    SerpApi

    • news
    • scholar
    • images

    from $0.0375 a call

  • headless browser

    Browserless

    • extract

    from $0.006 a call

  • our own page reader

    Direct

    • extract

    from $0.00075 a call


Search the web

General, news, academic, Google Scholar, people, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X posts, Reddit and Hacker News threads, images, places and patents. Auto by default: the router picks the mode and the engine, and says why in the response. Explicit when you want it: name the mode or the engines and they run exactly as asked.

Extract pages

Jina and Firecrawl readers, a Browserless headless browser, and a direct fetch from our own server. One request returns the page as markdown, and similar finds the pages like it.

Grounded answers

Deep mode across Exa, Perplexity, Tavily, Linkup, Parallel, Brave and Grok, with answers that cite their sources. Token-billed engines are charged for the usage they report, not the most a call could cost.


Every mode, priced per call.

Name a mode, name the engines, or name neither. Each engine bills at its own list price, so the cheapest engine for a mode sets its floor.

  • auto

    per mode

    Send only a query. The router picks the mode and the engine, and the response says why.

    any of the 13

  • general

    from $0.00075

    Web results for anything without a more specific mode.

    Serper, Exa, Jina, Brave, Linkup, Parallel, Tavily, Perplexity, Firecrawl

  • news

    from $0.0015

    Current events and recent coverage, with dates.

    Serper, Brave, Linkup, Parallel, Tavily, Perplexity, SerpApi

  • academic

    from $0.0015

    Papers and studies on a topic, found by meaning.

    Serper, Exa, Tavily, Perplexity

  • scholar

    from $0.0015

    Google Scholar records with citation counts, versions and PDF links.

    Serper, SerpApi

  • people

    from $0.0105

    A named person: role, employer and LinkedIn profile.

    Exa

  • social

    from $0.00282

    Posts and videos from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, with views, likes and comments. Name the platform, or let the router pick the likeliest one.

    xAI, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube

  • community

    from $0.00075

    What real people say about a topic: Reddit and Hacker News threads, with scores and comment counts.

    Reddit, Hacker News

  • images

    from $0.0015

    Pictures, each with the page it sits on.

    Serper, SerpApi

  • places

    from $0.0015

    Businesses and locations, with addresses.

    Serper

  • patents

    from $0.0015

    Patent filings.

    Serper

  • deep

    from $0.0015

    Wider coverage for a hard question, from the research-grade engines.

    Exa, Serper, Brave, Linkup, Parallel, Tavily, Perplexity, xAI

  • extract

    from $0.000375

    Any URL as clean markdown, from a plain fetch up to a full headless browser. Also called scrape.

    Reddit, Hacker News, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, our own fetch, Jina, Firecrawl, Browserless

  • similar

    from $0.0105

    Pages like a given page: competitors and related coverage.

    Exa

A typical call returns 10 results. Prices include our margin. Every engine and price


In the assistant you already use.

Sign in once from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code or Gemini CLI and every search is charged to your organisation. No key to paste. From a terminal or your own code, use a key.


Metering you can audit.

Every response says what it cost and what remains. The ledger is append-only and every charge carries its request id.

Pay per call
Each engine at its own list price, our margin included. No subscription.
Failed calls are free
Errors, timeouts and empty results cost nothing. When the router falls back, only the engine that answers is billed.
One balance
Top up by card from $5 to $1,000, or let it top itself up. Every key and every assistant draws on the same dollars.
Organisations and roles
Share the balance and the keys with your team as owner, admin, member or viewer. How roles work
open dashboard
{
  "request_id": "d80da58d-2b59-…",
  "provider": "serper",
  "mode": "general",
  "results": [ … ],
  "billing": {
    "charged_usd": 0.0015,
    "balance_usd": 0.9985
  }
}