# Parallel

> Web APIs that let AI agents search, extract, monitor and run cited multi-step research tasks across the web

Source: https://dontaskagain.com/parallel
Website: https://parallel.ai/?utm_source=dontaskagain
Pricing: Freemium
Categories: [Research](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/research.md), [Web scraping](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/web-scraping.md)
Listed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-23

Parallel provides web infrastructure for AI agents. Its APIs search the web, extract page contents, monitor sources for changes and run research tasks that return finished, cited reports, so agents work from current information.

**Key features:**

- Search API that returns ranked URLs and compressed excerpts for agent tool calls.
- Extract API for full page contents from a URL.
- Task API for deep research and structured enrichment with citations and confidence scores.
- Monitor API for structured alerts when tracked sources change.
- FindAll API for finding every entity that matches given criteria.
- Responses API for fast cited answers inside products.

Parallel offers a CLI, SDKs and an onboarding prompt for coding agents, and serves teams in sales, finance, legal, life sciences and software. Pricing is pay as you go, with up to 5,000 free requests a month and free credits at signup. Search runs from $0.001 to $0.005 per request and Extract at $0.001, while Task runs cost $0.005 to $2.40 depending on depth.

## More research agents

- [Manus](https://dontaskagain.com/manus.md): General-purpose agent that turns a prompt into finished slides, websites, research, designs, videos and more
- [ChatGPT agent](https://dontaskagain.com/chatgpt-agent.md): ChatGPT's agent mode, which browses websites, fills forms, runs code and completes multi-step tasks on its own computer
- [Perplexity](https://dontaskagain.com/perplexity.md): Answer engine that searches the web with citations and, via Computer, completes handed-off projects as deliverables
- [Genspark](https://dontaskagain.com/genspark.md): AI workspace whose agents research, write and produce slides, sheets, docs, designs, media and code from one prompt
- [Claude](https://dontaskagain.com/claude.md): Anthropic's assistant that searches the web, runs code, creates files and completes tasks across connected apps
- [Elicit](https://dontaskagain.com/elicit.md): Research agent that searches academic papers and trials, screens studies and writes fully cited reports
- [Consensus](https://dontaskagain.com/consensus.md): Academic search engine that runs deep literature reviews over peer-reviewed papers and shows where evidence agrees
- [You.com](https://dontaskagain.com/you-com.md): Web search, contents and research APIs that give AI agents and LLM apps fresh, cited web results
- [Undermind](https://dontaskagain.com/undermind.md): Research agent that reads hundreds of papers, follows citation trails and reports on the literature you need
- [Exa](https://dontaskagain.com/exa.md): Search API and agentic search engine that gives AI agents fast, token-efficient access to web and company data