# Web Search API

Ground AI agents and applications with real-time web search results

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## Overview

- [Cloudflare Web Search API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/index.md): Ground AI agents and applications with real-time web search results from Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup through AI Gateway.

## About Web Search API

- [About Web Search API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/about/index.md): Learn how Web Search API grounds AI agents in live web data, how it integrates with AI Gateway, and the crawling standards that search providers follow.

## How to use Web Search API

- [How to use Web Search API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/how-to-use/index.md): Send web search requests through AI Gateway with the REST API or the Workers AI binding, bring your own provider key, and use web search as a tool for models.

## Providers

- [Providers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/index.md): Compare Web Search API providers Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup, including Zero Data Retention terms and list API pricing.