# Web Search API

> Source: <https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/>
> Published: 2026-10-05 10:47:06+00:00

## Introducing Web Search API

[Web Search API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/) is now available in beta. Web Search API lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information, instead of guessing URLs or relying on a model's training cutoff.

At launch, you can choose between three search providers: [Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/). All three support Zero Data Retention for requests made through Cloudflare, and all have committed to Cloudflare's [verified bot](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/verified-bots/) crawling standards.

Web Search API runs through [AI Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/), so search requests appear in your gateway logs and are billed to your AI Gateway credits at each provider's list API price, with no additional markup. You can also bring your own provider API key.

Call Web Search API with the REST API:

Or from a Worker with the AI binding:

To get started, refer to [How to use Web Search API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/how-to-use/).