Parallel's Web Search and tools are live on Vercel
By Steven Van ·
Vercel's AI Gateway adds Parallel's web search tool, working with any model and priced at $5 per 1,000 requests.
Vercel's AI Gateway now includes Parallel's web search tool, added as parallelSearch in the tools parameter. Unlike provider-specific search tools, it works with any model regardless of provider, so web search can be added without changing the rest of the implementation. It extracts relevant excerpts from web pages, aimed at agentic tasks and real-time information retrieval.
The tool takes several optional parameters:
- mode: 'agentic' returns concise, token-efficient results for multi-step reasoning; the default 'one-shot' mode returns longer excerpts.
- sourcePolicy can restrict results to specific domains, exclude others, or limit results to those published after a given date.
- maxAgeSeconds controls how fresh cached content must be, for time-sensitive queries.
Parallel web search is billed at the same rate as the Parallel API: $5 per 1,000 requests, which includes up to 10 results each, with additional results beyond 10 charged at $1 per 1,000.
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