```yaml
product: AlterLab
title: "Ground AI agents and RAG with live web search | AlterLab"
comparison_context: "AlterLab is an alternative to Firecrawl, ScrapingBee, and Bright Data."
source_url: https://alterlab.io/use-cases/search-grounding
```

Use case

# Ground AI agents and RAG with live web search

Give an agent one tool that finds pages and returns their full content, so grounding does not need a separate fetch step.

[Get an API key](https://alterlab.io/signin)[Read the docs](https://alterlab.io/docs/api/search)

Up to 5,000 free requests

## How it works

Start with the [Search API](https://alterlab.io/search-api).

### Step 1

Call search with scrape_results to get result pages as markdown.

### Step 2

Pass the content to your model as context.

### Step 3

Cite the returned URLs in the answer.