Search More. Pay Less.
Information is the Raw Material for the AI Age
Web-scale search that's 100× cheaper, 10× faster, accurate & fully independent.
$0.05
Per 1K queries
50ms
As fast as
40B+
Web pages
Files
Conversations
Agents
Web
Reports
Documentation
Search Costs More Than Intelligence
LLMs need search. Training cutoffs mean LLM's know nothing about the last 6 months. Search gives LLMs access to current, accurate information.
Search APIs cost up to $14 per 1K queries - making it the dominant cost in any AI stack. Intelligent LLMs cost as little as $0.15 per 1K queries. These workhorse models are used the most and need search the most, but so far, it has been too expensive to pair with them.
Grok-4-1-fast + Competitor search
Model $0.15
Search $14.00
Total / 1K queries $14.15
Grok-4-1-fast + Ceramic
Model $0.15
Search $0.05
Total / 1K queries $0.20
* Model cost based on output pricing at ~300 tokens per response (0.3M output tokens ≈ 1K queries)
Ceramic Web API
Ceramic gives AI the ability to search more and unlock new use cases.
Query:
“Who is the current president of the United States?”
No Search
LLM with no web access
0 Searches
The current president of the United States is Joe Biden, who took office on January 20, 2021, as the 46th president.
Outdated — training data cutoff
Competitor Search API
$14.00 per 1,000 queries *
- • current US president
1 Searches
Donald Trump is the current president of the United States. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, as the 47th president, having previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. He won the 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris. JD Vance serves as his Vice President.
Ceramic Search
$0.05 per 1,000 queries
- • current US president
- • US president 2025
- • president inauguration 2025
- • 2024 election results
- • Trump electoral votes 2024
- • 47th president United States
- • JD Vance vice president
- • Trump executive orders 2025
8 Searches
Donald Trump is the 47th and current president of the United States, having been inaugurated on January 20, 2025.[1] He won the 2024 presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris with 312 electoral votes.[2] Trump previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.[3] His current term is set to run until January 2029, with JD Vance serving as Vice President.[4] Early policy priorities have included executive orders on immigration enforcement, energy production, and trade tariffs.[5][6]
8x
more searches
35x
cheaper
What Smarter AI Is Built On
Any industry, any application — built on AI, powered by search.
AI Agents
Agents require dozens of searches per task. Ceramic's price point makes high-frequency agentic search viable for the first time.
Verification & Fact-Checking
Verifies claims at inference time — fast and affordable enough to check every response before it reaches the user.
RAG / Context Grounding
Fills the model's context window with current web data before it responds, so answers are grounded in today's information — not training data.
AI Chatbots & Answer Engines
Users expect current answers. Search ensures your chatbot never responds based on outdated information.
Enterprise-Ready
Enterprise-Ready
Private Data Indexing
Index and search over your internal knowledge. Your data never leaves your environment.
Custom Rate Limits
Rate limits tailored to your requirements. Scale with confidence.
Dedicated Support
A dedicated team to help you integrate, scale, and succeed.
SOC 2 Type II Certified
Zero Data Retention
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