Updates

Search TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and read whole Reddit threads

· Search

Social mode now searches TikTok, Instagram and YouTube as well as X, and community mode searches Reddit and Hacker News. Paste a post or thread link and you get the whole thing back.

  • Name the platform in your search, such as “on tiktok”, “instagram reels” or “youtube videos”, to search only there. Otherwise X and the one platform most likely to have the answer are searched together.
  • Each post comes with its views, likes, comments, shares and author.
  • A TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or Threads post link returns the caption, the stats, the transcript where there is one, and the top comments.
  • Reddit search covers all of Reddit, or one subreddit when you write r/ and its name. A Reddit or Hacker News thread link returns the post and every comment in order, with its score.
  • It works from AI assistants connected through the MCP server, from search-cli and with your key, on the same balance. A search on one platform starts at $0.00282, and failed calls are free.

Automatic top-ups keep your balance from running out

· Billing

Owners and admins can save a card and have it charged a set amount whenever the balance falls below a threshold, up to a monthly cap. It stays off until you turn it on in Settings → Plan & billing.

  • Choose the threshold (from $5), the amount (from $10) and the monthly cap, then confirm the exact authorisation before it turns on.
  • Save a card in Settings → Plan & billing, or tick “Save this card for automatic top-ups” when you add funds on Billing. Saving a card charges nothing.
  • If a charge is declined or the bank asks to authenticate it, automatic top-ups turn off and you get an email.
  • Turn them off or remove the card at any time. The terms are at metasearch.sh/terms#auto-top-up.

A new console with organisations, roles, usage, logs and statements

· Console

The console is rebuilt: bring your team into an organisation, give each person a role, and see what every key spends in Usage, Logs and a monthly statement.

  • Organisations have four roles: owner, admin, member and viewer. Invite people from Settings → Members & roles.
  • Settings covers your profile, appearance, notifications, sessions, the organisation, billing details, rate limits, data and privacy, and an activity log of who changed what.
  • Usage charts calls and spend by day, Logs lists every call with what it cost, and both download as CSV.
  • Billing shows a monthly statement of top-ups and charges, which you can download.
  • Choose the dark steel theme or the light one, or follow your system, from Settings → Appearance.
  • Press ⌘K (Ctrl K) to jump to any page, setting or docs section, or paste a request id to find that call.
  • Redeem a promo code on the Billing page.
  • Automatic top-ups, which add funds when your balance runs low, arrive in a later update.
  • metasearch.sh/security explains how your keys, payments and data are protected.

Page extracts start with direct, a flat $0.00075 a page

· Search

An extract with no engine named now tries direct first, at $0.00075 a page, and moves to another engine only when direct cannot read the page. Before, extracts started with engines that charge by page length, about $0.002 for a long article.

  • When direct cannot read a page, the next engine answers and you pay only for the one that answered.
  • metasearch.sh/status now checks direct every 6 hours, like the other engines.

One key, and the search picks the mode for you

· Search

Send a query with no mode and metasearch.sh chooses the mode and engines for it, then orders the results by relevance. The response says which mode it chose and why.

  • One API key covers every engine listed at metasearch.sh/pricing.
  • Name a mode or an engine and it is used exactly as given.
  • Choosing the mode and reordering results add nothing to the price.
  • Send rerank: false to keep the engines’ own order.

Per-call prices for every engine, and failed calls are free

· Billing

metasearch.sh/pricing lists what one call costs on each engine in each mode. Failed, timed-out and empty calls are not charged.

  • You pay the engine’s list price × 1.5, at least $0.0001 a call.
  • Each response shows what the call cost and your balance after it.
  • Top up any whole amount from $5 to $1,000, with no subscription.
  • Credits never expire while your account is open.

Search from Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex

· MCP

Add metasearch.sh/mcp as a remote MCP server with your API key, and your agent can search the web and fetch pages as markdown, paid from the same balance.

  • Setup for each app is at metasearch.sh/docs/mcp.

Sign in by email, and a new dashboard

· Dashboard

Sign in with a link sent to your inbox, with no password. The dashboard shows your balance, keys, usage, logs and receipts, and works on phones.

  • Your balance, keys and history carry over: sign in again with the same email.
  • Logs list every recent call with its mode, engine and charge.

Clearer pages that load faster

· Site

The home page downloads about half as many image bytes on phones, and a mistyped link now lands on a page that leads home, to the docs or to pricing.

  • Every page shares one menu: pricing, docs, status and dashboard.
  • The terms and privacy policy say plainly how accounts close, how refunds and disputes affect credit, and what is kept and for how long.

Searches try another engine when one fails

· Search

Leave out the provider and a search goes to the first available engine for its mode, then to the next if that one fails, up to three attempts.

  • Each response names the engine that answered.
  • Name a provider to use only that engine, with no fallback.
  • Agents can read every mode and engine in one request at metasearch.sh/api/v1/manifest.

Your keys, usage and invoices in the dashboard

· Dashboard

The dashboard now shows your API keys, what you spent and on which engines, every recent request, and an invoice for each top-up.

  • Open a key again at any time to copy it.
  • Usage charts your calls and spend by day.
  • Logs list recent requests with their mode, engine and cost.
  • Billing has a PDF invoice for every top-up.

Documentation

· Docs

The docs cover a first search in a few minutes, every request field and error, how billing works, and how search-cli fits in.

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