What is Agentic search?
Verified 5 August 2026
A person skims ten results and discards nine at no cost. An agent pays for all ten in context and reasoning tokens, cannot ask a clarifying question, and cannot tell a good source from a plausible one without help.
That changes what a search API should return: fewer, better results; metadata rather than page bodies; explicit trust signals rather than an implicit ranking; and a way to distinguish "not found" from "does not exist".
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Common questions
What is Agentic search?
Agentic search is web search consumed by an autonomous system rather than a person, which inverts most of the design assumptions of consumer search.
How does Agentic search work in practice?
That changes what a search API should return: fewer, better results; metadata rather than page bodies; explicit trust signals rather than an implicit ranking; and a way to distinguish "not found" from "does not exist".
See it working
The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card — enough to test any of this against your own queries.