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# Parallel Search API

- Record ID: `web-search:parallel`
- Record version: `1.1.0`
- Schema version: `1.1.0`
- Category: `web.search`
- Delivery model: `ai_native_retrieval`
- Record status: `accepted`
- Catalog release: `web-search-v0.2.0`
- Machine URI: https://intentroute.net/catalog/v1/web-search/records/parallel.json
- Human URI: https://intentroute.net/catalog/web-search/parallel

## Agent tasks

- `current_fact_retrieval` — basis: `/claims/capabilities/request_features`, `/claims/capabilities/response_fields`
- `source_discovery` — basis: `/claims/capabilities/response_fields`
- `comparative_research` — basis: `/claims/capabilities/request_features`, `/claims/capabilities/response_fields`
- `domain_constrained_search` — basis: `/claims/capabilities/request_features`
- `fresh_content_for_rag` — basis: `/claims/capabilities/request_features`, `/claims/capabilities/response_fields`

## Claims

### identity.provider

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"official_name":"Parallel","official_url":"https://parallel.ai/"}`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-11-14
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Provider/product documentation
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### identity.product

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"official_name":"Parallel Search API","documentation_url":"https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart"}`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-11-14
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Product title and documentation boundary
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### access.endpoint

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"base_url":"https://api.parallel.ai","search_path":"/v1/search","http_method":"POST"}`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Documented request example or endpoint reference
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### access.authentication

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `["api_key_header"]`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Documented authentication method
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### access.availability

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `"public_signup"`
- Observed: 2026-08-24
- Next review: 2026-08-31
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-24
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Documented account or access path
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### access.product_stage

- State: `unknown`
- Confidence: `unknown`
- Value: `unknown`
- Observed: unknown
- Next review: unknown
- Evidence: none (claim is explicitly unknown)

### capabilities.request_features

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `["query","max_results","domain_filter","recency_filter"]`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Documented request controls
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### capabilities.response_fields

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `["title","url","published_at","snippet"]`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Search quickstart](https://docs.parallel.ai/search/search-quickstart) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Documented structured response or citation fields
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### commercial.pricing

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"billing_model":"usage_based","provider_units":[{"tier_name":"Search API","amount":"5","currency":"USD","unit":"search_requests","unit_quantity":1000,"description":"Default 10 page results and excerpts per request."},{"tier_name":"Additional page results and excerpts","amount":"1","currency":"USD","unit":"additional_results","unit_quantity":1000,"description":"Results and excerpts above the default 10 per request."}],"normalized_units":[]}`
- Observed: 2026-08-24
- Next review: 2026-08-31
- Evidence: [Parallel pricing](https://docs.parallel.ai/getting-started/pricing) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-24
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Search API component pricing
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### commercial.quota

- State: `unknown`
- Confidence: `unknown`
- Value: `unknown`
- Observed: unknown
- Next review: unknown
- Evidence: none (claim is explicitly unknown)

### coverage.languages

- State: `unknown`
- Confidence: `unknown`
- Value: `unknown`
- Observed: unknown
- Next review: unknown
- Evidence: none (claim is explicitly unknown)

### coverage.geographies

- State: `unknown`
- Confidence: `unknown`
- Value: `unknown`
- Observed: unknown
- Next review: unknown
- Evidence: none (claim is explicitly unknown)

### policy.terms

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"terms_url":"https://parallel.ai/customer-terms","effective_on":"2026-07-01"}`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Customer Terms](https://parallel.ai/customer-terms) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Applicable public terms
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### policy.privacy

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `{"privacy_url":"https://parallel.ai/privacy-policy","retention_summary":null}`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Privacy Policy](https://parallel.ai/privacy-policy) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Public privacy or data-control statement
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

### policy.usage_restrictions

- State: `current`
- Confidence: `high`
- Value: `["Outputs may not be cached into a database, resold, benchmarked, or used for model training except as allowed by the customer terms."]`
- Observed: 2026-08-16
- Next review: 2026-09-15
- Evidence: [Parallel Customer Terms](https://parallel.ai/customer-terms) — public_documentation, observed 2026-08-16
  - Source published: unknown
  - Locator: Material attributable use boundary
  - Content digest: not preserved
  - Notes: none

## Correction and revision history

- Correction state: `corrected`
- Public correction URI: not operational
- Acknowledgement target: not promised
- Resolution target: not promised
- 2026-08-24 — Replaced the former Turbo/fast and Basic/advanced Search tiers with the current Search API base request and additional-result pricing. (previous version `1.0.0`)