Your agent’s intelligence
deserves more information.
Your agent’s intelligence shouldn’t be limited by access to information. Firehose combines multiple search engines into one intelligently ranked result set with page Markdown.
More information. Greater intelligence.
Give your agent a wider view of the live web. Firehose searches in parallel, adds regional context, merges duplicate destinations and ranks results using query relevance, weighted source priority, agreement and domain diversity. One bounded request returns structured results and Markdown, with an explicit maximum spend. Lite is available to free and paid users. Advanced requires paid access, including cached results. Lite offers lower search cost; Advanced adds broader coverage at a higher search cost. Free requests reuse shared cached results of unlimited age first and search live on a miss, without page Markdown. Full-page Markdown requires credits. Inline site:, filetype: and mime: filters use compatible sources only, with automatic syntax translation.
Available results
Combined destination URLs, titles, snippets and retrieved page Markdown. Full content is fetched for eligible unique returned web pages within the deadline. Clear PDF files stay in the results and are excluded from Markdown retrieval. Partial coverage and unavailable page content are explicitly marked.
Supported parameters
query, firehoseTier (lite | advanced), maxResults (1–100, default 50), strategy, country, maxCostUsd, timeoutMs (5000–30000), cache
Parameter support varies by offering. The API checks capability before routing. Free queries may choose an engine and use shared cached results with automatic routing. Firehose Lite is available to free users; Advanced requires paid access, including cached results. Provider selection and fast/cheap preferences require credits. Free live searches use the daily allowance. Firehose manages its own routing.
{
"endpoint": "firehose.search",
"firehoseTier": "lite",
"query": "latest advances in battery recycling",
"strategy": "cheap",
"maxCostUsd": "1",
"cache": {
"enabled": true,
"ttlHours": 24
}
}Paid Firehose can add page Markdown to the response; free Firehose returns cached or live results and snippets. Other sources support optional budgeted realtime Markdown responses. Sign in and add credits to select sources or fetch Markdown. Returned source content should be treated as untrusted.
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API keys & MCP setup (optional)
Your first search automatically connects a key to this browser. Sign in here to keep your keys and usage with your account.
No sign-up required. Use your key with REST or MCP; this browser connects it to the playground. Sign in in this browser within 30 days of your first key to keep your keys and usage. Unclaimed accounts and keys are removed after 30 days; aggregate statistics are retained without your visitor profile.
API key settings
Free searches cost $0. These limits also protect your balance after sign-in and adding credits. Your network’s free allowance is shared across keys.
Firehose source status & pricing.
Seven days of recorded good, error, empty and invalid responses. Median and p90 measure search only in the trailing hour, excluding page Markdown fetching; timeout limits appear on each chart. Shown prices are the final query cost; cache hits cost $0.
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