Machine Payments for the Web Search and Finance Research APIs
GET /v1/search and POST /v1/finance_research now accept machine payments, so an agent with a funded wallet can call either one without an API key, an account, or a prepaid credit balance. Payment settles inside the same HTTP exchange that requests the data.
Two protocols are advertised on both routes, and a single unpaid request returns terms for each:
Both protocols match the standard credit prices. They diverge on Web Search only, because MPP settles through Stripe, where one cent is the smallest chargeable amount, so a half-cent call rounds up. Adding livecrawl raises the Web Search quote by $0.001 per result on both protocols.
Watch the HTTP method. Each endpoint offers terms on one verb, and the other returns 401 — Web Search on GET, Finance Research on POST. Zero Data Retention does not apply to keyless requests, since it is enforced against a specific organization’s API keys and these requests carry no account.