aid: parallel-ai
name: Parallel
description: >-
  Parallel Web Systems builds web APIs purpose-built for AI agents: a
  high-accuracy Search API, an Extract API that turns URLs into clean
  LLM-ready markdown, a Task/Deep Research API with tiered processors
  (lite through ultra), FindAll for natural-language entity discovery and
  enrichment, a Monitor API for scheduled web-change tracking, an
  OpenAI-compatible Responses and Chat Completions pair, and a Memory API that
  lets agents reuse past research. The platform is API-key authenticated over
  https://api.parallel.ai, ships official Python and TypeScript SDKs and a
  CLI, emits Standard Webhooks and SSE event streams, and is SOC 2 Type I/II
  certified. Its agent surface is unusually complete: an anonymous hosted MCP
  server whose tools are publicly introspectable, an OAuth-gated Task MCP
  server, a conformant A2A agent card backed by a live /a2a endpoint,
  provider-published Agent Skills with a discovery document, an llms.txt, and
  markdown twins of every documentation page. Pricing is pay-as-you-go per
  request per product. Originally surfaced as a Kleiner Perkins portfolio
  company and enriched from Parallel's public developer surface.
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  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
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  confidence: high
  notes: >-
    Published per-request rate card (plans/parallel-plans-pricing.yml); up to $80
    signup credit and $5/month free credits; hosted playgrounds per product; and
    an MCP endpoint at https://search.parallel.ai/mcp callable with no account and
    no API key at all.
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modified: '2026-08-14'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Web Search
- Agents
- Deep Research
- Web Extraction
- Data Enrichment
- Web Monitoring
- LLM Tools
- A2A
- Ai Ml
- AI Agents
- MCP
- Agent Skills
- Content Extraction
- Entity Resolution
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- Company
- Ai
- Web Search
- Agents
- Deep Research
- Web Extraction
- Data Enrichment
- Web Monitoring
- LLM Tools
- A2A
- Ai Ml
- AI Agents
- MCP
- Agent Skills
- Content Extraction
- Entity Resolution
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-chat-api-beta-api
  name: Parallel Chat API (Beta) API
  description: >-
    The Chat API provides a programmatic chat-style text generation interface. It accepts a sequence of
    messages and returns model responses. Intended for assistant-like interactions and evaluation. Streaming
    responses are supported.
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  - type: GettingStarted
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  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/parallel-authentication.yml
- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-extract-api
  name: Parallel Extract API
  description: >-
    Extract returns excerpts or full content from one or more URLs. Inputs are a list of URLs and an optional
    search objective and keyword queries. The returned excerpts or full content is formatted as markdown
    and suitable for LLM consumption.

    - Result: excerpts or full content from the URL formatted as markdown
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  - Extract
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-findall-api
  name: Parallel FindAll API
  description: >-
    The FindAll API discovers and evaluates entities that match complex criteria from natural language
    objectives. Submit a high-level goal and the service automatically generates structured match conditions,
    discovers relevant candidates, and evaluates each against the criteria. Returns comprehensive results
    with detailed reasoning, citations, and confidence scores for each match decision. Streaming events
    and webhooks are supported.
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-monitor-api
  name: Parallel Monitor API
  description: >-
    The Monitor API watches the web for material changes on a fixed frequency. Each monitor runs once
    on creation and then on its configured schedule, emitting events when meaningful changes are detected.

    - `event_stream` monitors track a search query and emit an event for each new material change.

    - `snapshot` monitors track a specific task run's output and emit an event when the output changes.


    Results can be polled via the events endpoint or delivered via webhooks.
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  - Monitors
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  - Monitor
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-search-api
  name: Parallel Search API
  description: >-
    Search returns ranked URLs with extended excerpts suitable for LLM consumption. Inputs are a natural-language
    objective and optional keyword queries. Source policies allow including or excluding specific domains
    and have configurable output sizes. The returned extended snippets contain dense, relevant information
    from relevant pages.

    - Result: ranked list with URL, title, and long text excerpts
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    url: https://docs.parallel.ai/getting-started/overview
  - type: Authentication
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-tasks-api
  name: Parallel Tasks API
  description: >-
    The Task API executes web research and extraction tasks. Clients submit a natural-language objective
    with an optional input schema; the service plans retrieval, fetches relevant URLs, and returns outputs
    that conform to a provided or inferred JSON schema. Supports deep research style queries and can return
    rich structured JSON outputs. Processors trade-off between cost, latency, and quality. Each processor
    supports calibrated confidences.

    - Output metadata: citations, excerpts, reasoning, and confidence per field


    Task Groups enable batch execution of many independent Task runs with group-level monitoring and failure
    handling.

    - Submit hundreds or thousands of Tasks as a single group

    - Observe group progress and receive results as they complete

    - Real-time updates via Server-Sent Events (SSE)

    - Add tasks to an existing group while it is running

    - Group-level retry and error aggregation
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  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-memory-api
  name: Parallel Memory API
  description: >-
    The Memory API lets agents search and reuse the results of past Task, Monitor and FindAll runs so
    new research builds on work already done. It exposes retrieve, evict and clear operations over the
    stored research corpus, turning repeated web research into a reusable, source-addressable memory rather
    than a fresh crawl every time.
  humanURL: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/memory
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  tags:
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- aid: parallel-ai:parallel-ai-responses-api-api
  name: Parallel Responses API
  description: >-
    An OpenAI-Responses-compatible interface for answers grounded in live web research, with URL citations.
    Point any Responses-API client — the OpenAI Python SDK, OpenAI TypeScript SDK, the Agents SDK, or
    raw HTTP — at `https://api.parallel.ai` with your Parallel API key, set `model` to `parallel`, and
    call `/v1/responses`.

    - `input` accepts a plain string or an array of role/content messages (canonical OpenAI shape; text
    content only).

    - `reasoning.effort` (`low`/`medium`/`high`) controls how much research is performed, trading response
    time for answer quality.

    - Multi-turn via `previous_response_id`.

    - Structured outputs via `text.format = {"type": "json_schema", "name": ..., "schema": {...}}`.

    - Streaming (`stream=true`) emits the standard OpenAI Responses SSE lifecycle: `response.created`
    and `response.in_progress`, then output item / content part / text delta events with URL-citation
    annotations, the matching `*.done` events, and a terminal `response.completed` — or `response.failed`
    if the request fails mid-stream.
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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