01
Fast
1–5results
Quick facts, weather, rates and one command from the docs.
$1.99New Search · per 1 000
$2.99Search + Compact
WHAT YOUR AGENT GETS
The link
and the page’s text.
Your agent sends a query and gets up to 25 sources. Each comes with its address, its title, the publication date when the site gives one, and the page text in whole paragraphs, without menus or ads. No need to open and clean the pages yourself.
Over the API or a local MCP server.
API documentation ↗QueryFast · 5 sources
In Pydantic AI's Amazon backend, which setting beats the unified one, and how do I get the reserved level?
AWS Bedrock
Bedrock supports controlling the service tier to manage throughput and cost. You can use the unified
service_tierfield or the provider-specificbedrock_service_tierfield.bedrock_service_tiertakes precedence over the unified field when both are set.To request Bedrock’s 'reserved' tier (which requires a pre-purchased capacity reservation), set
bedrock_service_tierdirectly — it isn’t reachable through the unified field.Anthropic
OpenAI
How long
a search takes.
Measured on 5 November 2026 on a test server, without the network: each part of a search timed on its own, medians added up. Index: 38.1 million pages.
Fast
61msmedian
Standard
116msmedian
Deep
208msmedian
12 QUESTION SETS · 5 NOVEMBER 2026
Orbita next to
Exa and Linkup.
The same 3,094 questions from twelve sets for every service, and one check: is a correct answer in the text it returns. Each searched its own index: Exa and Linkup the whole web, Orbita a test index of 38.1 million pages built for this run (English Wikipedia, web pages from Common Crawl and pages it crawled itself), not its smaller production index. Orbita answered on 5 November 2026; Exa and Linkup answered six of the sets on 24 October and six on 5 November.
Every question, the method and the full report ↗
| Measure | Orbita Fast | Orbita Standard | Orbita Deep | Exa Auto | Linkup Standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 59.7 | 62.7 | 65.0 | 90.0 | 86.7 |
| Natural Questions: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 73.3 | 82.0 | 86.3 | 89.0 | 87.3 |
| HotpotQA: answer in the returned text, % of 250 | 55.6 | 64.0 | 71.6 | 74.8 | 62.0 |
| AA-Omniscience: answer in the returned text, % of 200 | 46.0 | 50.0 | 60.0 | 81.5 | 70.5 |
| BrowseComp: answer in the returned text, % of 100 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 15.0 | 27.0 | 11.0 |
| TechQA: answer in the returned text, % of 144 | 92.4 | 93.8 | 95.8 | 91.0 | 92.4 |
| FRAMES: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 30.0 | 38.0 | 46.3 | 51.0 | 31.0 |
| PopQA: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 66.0 | 73.7 | 79.7 | 83.0 | 74.7 |
| TriviaQA: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 88.3 | 90.3 | 92.7 | 93.0 | 92.3 |
| MuSiQue: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 31.7 | 39.0 | 49.3 | 53.3 | 38.3 |
| 2WikiMultihopQA: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 42.0 | 51.3 | 61.7 | 74.0 | 50.7 |
| Mintaka: answer in the returned text, % of 300 | 80.7 | 88.0 | 91.0 | 92.0 | 90.0 |
PRICING
What search
and Fetch cost.
02
Standard
6–10results
Comparisons, error fixes, harder docs and this week’s news on a topic.
$3.99New Search · per 1 000
$5.99Search + Compact
03
Deep
11–25results
A person, a company, a timeline or news across regions.
$7.99New Search · per 1 000
$12.99Search + Compact
04
Auto
Autorequested
→Fast–Deepresolved mode
Orbita picks Fast, Standard or Deep for each query, within your limits.
$1.99–$7.99resolved Search price
$2.99–$12.99resolved Compact price
Never exceeds max_mode or max_cost_usd05
Fetch
Any page, or a site section of up to 100 pages per request, as clean text in whole paragraphs.
- Text from images (OCR)
- JavaScript when needed
- Every PDF page
- Failed pages are free
$0.50per 1,000 pagesExa · Parallel · You.com $1
Fetch next to the others
The whole page as clean text in whole paragraphs, text from images and every PDF page, at one price. The others return markdown.
| Service · returns | Price per 1,000 pages | Text from images | Failed pages | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without JavaScript | With JavaScript | Site crawl | |||
| Orbita Fetchwhole page: clean text in whole paragraphs | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | Included | Free |
| Exa Contentsmarkdown | $1.00 | $1.00 | Subpages, price not published | Not stated | ? |
| Parallel Extractmarkdown | $1.00 | $1.00 | No | Not stated | ? |
| You.com Contentsmarkdown, html | $1.00 | $1.00 | No | Not stated | ? |
| Linkup Fetchmarkdown | $1.00 | $5.00 | No | Not stated | Free |
| Tavily Extractmarkdown, text | $1.00–1.60 | $2.00–3.20 | $1.50–2.40 | No | Free |
| Firecrawlmarkdown, html, json | $0.60–3.80 | $0.60–3.80 | $0.60–3.80 | Not stated | 403 and 404 are billed |
| Spidermarkdown, text | ~$0.02–0.10 | ~$0.04–0.16 | ~$0.30 | Not stated | Free |
| Scrapflymarkdown, text | $0.09–0.15 | $0.55–0.90 | $0.09–0.15 | Not stated | Free |
USD per 1,000 pages, from each service's pricing pages on 21 October 2026. A range means the price depends on the plan: from the largest self-serve plan to pay as you go; for Spider, the averages from its own guide. ? means not published.
Every mode returns sources with links and publication dates. Compact adds a controlled context pass.
- New Search$1.99–$7.99
- Search + Compact$2.99–$12.99
- Linkup$5
- Tavily$5–8
- Exa$7
OUR PRINCIPLE