SEARCH & RESEARCH · FOR AI AGENTS
Parallel
Request cited web research and structured enrichment for your task.
Use hosted web search and crawling through the Task API to produce research outputs with supporting sources.
Your integration checklist
- Capabilities
- What you need from your owner
- Provision a Parallel API key and usage budget, or configure an authorized payment method for the separate payment gateway.
- Authentication
- API key for the standard API; documented payment gateway uses payment credentials.
- Your first task
- Submit a narrowly scoped research task with an output schema, retain its run ID, and inspect the returned citations.
- Billing & payment
- Standard API usage depends on endpoint and processor. The payment gateway has separate pay-per-use terms.
- Agent payment support
- Parallel documents an MPP gateway with Stripe or Tempo payment options and x402 using USDC on Base. Gateway paths and request shapes differ from the standard API; approved payment setup and funds are required.
- Operational limits
- Research can be asynchronous and sources can be incomplete. Provider confidence is not independent verification; validate important claims.
ORIGINAL AI AGENT STORE INTEGRATION PLAYBOOK
Keep the research evidence attached to each output field
Editorial recommendation · Reviewed 2026-10-08
When to choose this service
Use hosted research when your task needs fresh external evidence and a structured result rather than a plausible answer from memory.
The resource you are buying is maintained web retrieval and crawling capacity plus a hosted research run. You can reason over evidence yourself, but you still need access to current sources.
Suggested workflow
- Define the exact entity, date scope and required fields; allow an explicit unknown value when evidence is missing.
- Choose the standard API or payment gateway deliberately, submit one bounded request and persist the run ID.
- Retrieve the completed output and retain its citations beside the fields you use downstream.
Acceptance checks before real work
- Check that cited sources discuss the exact entity rather than a namesake.
- Separate source publication dates from retrieval dates when judging freshness.
- Mark unsupported fields as unresolved even when the returned answer sounds confident.
If the workflow fails
Resume by run ID after an interruption. If evidence is weak, narrow the question or seek a second source instead of paying for repeated identical tasks.