Research API

Research jobs that cite their sources

Describe a question. AlterLab plans the searches and fetches the pages. Your own model key writes the synthesis, so you control the model and its cost.

Up to 5,000 free requests

We fetch, you reason

Plan

Describe the question and pick an effort tier. AlterLab plans the searches.

Fetch

Searches run and each source page is fetched at the lowest successful tier.

Reason

Your own model key writes the synthesis from the cited pages. Model tokens are never billed by AlterLab.

Bring your own model key

AlterLab bills the searches and the pages it fetches. The reasoning runs on your model provider account, so model tokens are never billed by AlterLab.

The scoreboard, kept in the open

A reproducible harness compares providers on answer quality, content coverage, latency and cost per correct answer. Numbers appear here only from dated runs.

SetMetricStatus
Protected-answer setAnswer-in-content ratePending scoreboard
Freshness setRecall of last-7-day eventsPending scoreboard
Public QA subsetsRecall@10 of gold URLPending scoreboard
All setsp50 / p95 latency, cost per correct answerPending scoreboard