# The First European Search API > Source: > Published: 2026-07-22 14:08:14+00:00 *Fuel your AI* with the first European Search API. ## Simple search API pricing, up to 9× cheaper Pay for what you use. No hidden surprises or unexpected bills. You stay in control of your output from day one. Search the web. JSON in, JSON out. - Web documents - News - Exclude or include up-to 10 domains [Learn more](#use) [Try for free](/auth/register) Search + extra snippets per document. - Everything in Web Search - Extra snippets per document - Snippets scoring & re-ranking - Full document fetch in HTML or Markdown - End-to-end latency down to 1s min [Learn more](#use) [Try for free](/auth/register) One call in. A cited answer out. - Powered by Web Search for AI - AI Chat feature - Complex query rewriting - Ready to use LLM answer by Mistral - Answer customization [Learn more](#use) ### Custom plan Need higher volume, dedicated infrastructure, or custom API endpoints? Contact us — we'll tailor a plan to your specific requirements, always on European infrastructure. - Custom rate limits (QPS) - Support for integration - Dedicated interlocutor - Early access for new features ## A web search API, three ways to use it One endpoint. Many ways to use it. Switch tabs to see how Staan adapts to your use case. ### Web results, ready to integrate Query the web and get back a clean, ranked list of 10 results — documents, news, structured data — directly consumable by your app. No parsing gymnastics. - One API call. Ten ranked results. Ship a search bar in minutes. - Surface fresh articles on any topic — power a live news feed, automatically. - Filter by domain, market and language. Search that fits your product, not the other way around. ## Structured search results for RAG and AI agents The processing layer between raw search results and your application. It scores, enriches and packages fetched documents so you get context that's ready to parse and use. Powers both Web Search for AI and AI Answer, on the same stack as Qwant Search. Not just snippets. Retrieve the full document when you need the long context. Available as HTML or Markdown. Request additional passages tailored to your query, with each result's publication date. Personalised retrieval, per call. Every result is scored for relevance and reranked. The best context surfaces first, every time. Output delivered as structured JSON, ready to parse and drop straight into your application. ## Why the Staan search API Powerful search for AI applications. We index the web so you can build with verified sources, in real time. One endpoint, fully documented. Authenticate, query, parse JSON. That's it. Get fresh, citable results — thanks to Staan API's host architecture. More API requests per euro than any specialised competitor — a cost-effective alternative to Google, Bing and Brave search APIs. ## A European, GDPR-compliant search API Sovereignty isn't a flag. It's a guarantee about where your data lives, which courts protect it, and who can read it. Your data stays under EU jurisdiction, in EU data centres, with EU-only routing available. Privacy by design. No third-party tracking, no behavioural profiling, and no exposure to the US CLOUD Act. Source-first results. Every result returned by the API is linked back to its origin — auditable, attributable, and never a black box.