Company

Anthropic

Primary category

AI Infrastructure

Best for

Developers building research agents, customer support tools, financial analysis workflows, and other current-information products.

Pricing

Anthropic announced web search API pricing at launch as an add-on per search plus standard token costs.

Free plan

API

yes

Open source/open weight

Linked launches

Latest launch date

May 7, 2025

Last verified

2026-06-08

Verification & Sources

Official site

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What It Does

Anthropic introduced web search on the API so developers can build Claude applications that retrieve and cite current web information.

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AI Infrastructure May 7, 2025

Anthropic introduced web search on the API so developers can build Claude applications that retrieve and cite current web information.

Free: No API: Yes Open: No

Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal

Worth tracking because current-information retrieval is core infrastructure for useful agents.

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