Yandex web search in your chatbot or agent in 5 minutes

Our API brings web answers with Yandex‑level relevance, spam filtering, and low latency — ideal for building your own LLM agent, GPT bots, support assistants, and RAG systems.

LLM agents p99 worldwide: <500 ms Faster than SERP parsers 600+ worldwide customers Own large index MCP compatible
Yandex — Top 2 global search engine* Best choice for English, Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, Spanish, Turkish & more languages
import base64
import requests

API_TOKEN = "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
FOLDER_ID = "YOUR_FOLDER_ID"
API_URL = "https://searchapi.api.cloud.yandex.net/v2/web/search"

payload = {
    "query": {
        "searchType": "SEARCH_TYPE_COM",
        "queryText": "great wall of china",
        "familyMode": "FAMILY_MODE_MODERATE"
    },
    "groupSpec": {"groupMode": "GROUP_MODE_FLAT", "groupsOnPage": 10, "docsInGroup": 1},
    "responseFormat": "FORMAT_XML",
    "folderId": FOLDER_ID
}

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_TOKEN}"}

resp = requests.post(API_URL, headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=30)
resp.raise_for_status()

print(base64.b64decode(resp.json()["rawData"]))

API Capabilities

Web Search

The API accepts a text query, the device type and the user’s region, returns the most relevant, high-quality pages by searching region-specific results and prioritizing pages optimized for the user’s device

Image Search

The API accepts a text query, the device type and the user’s region, returns the most relevant, links to high-quality images by searching region-specific results and prioritizing sources optimized for the user’s device

Video Search

The API accepts a text query, the device type and the user’s region, returns the most relevant, links to high-quality video by searching region-specific results and prioritizing pages optimized for the user’s device

AI Search

The API accepts a text question, the device type and the user’s region, returns generative answer to the user’s query, grounded with citations to high-quality sources optimized for the user’s device

Visual Search

The API accepts an image, the device type and the user’s region, returns similar high-quality images by searching region-specific results and prioritizing sources optimized for the user’s device

Site Search

Enable users to perform searches on a single website or a collection of websites managed by a particular organization

Use cases

LLM Search

Power your LLM applications with factual data to generate accurate, trustworthy up-to-date answers with actual sources

LLM Agents

Give your agent a reliable web brain. Orchestrate tool calls and get a generative, cited answer in one API call. For example, a travel AI-agent for planning and booking all aspects of journey

Site Search

Provide users typo-tolerance and instant indexing search for content across your website

Internet Search

Embed internet-wide search into your product. Run originality checks, verify claims, monitor brand / intellectual property risks, and power competitive research with filters and regional targeting

Competitor analysis

Track competitors prices, availability, and reviews across the web. Normalize SKUs with product matching to power dynamic pricing

Smart Camera

Search similar products for user uploaded photo in e-commerce portal

Quality comparison

Yandex delivers world-class search worldwide. Our core languages are English, Russian, Turkish, Kazakh, and Uzbek, with standard support for all other languages. Below are benchmark results for the languages most frequently requested by our clients.

English
Yandex
0.86
Other major commercial API
0.72
Spanish
Yandex
0.62
Other major commercial API
0.59
Portuguese
Yandex
0.62
Other major commercial API
0.56
Indonesian
Yandex
0.62
Other major commercial API
0.56
French
Yandex
0.66
Other major commercial API
0.59
German
Yandex
0.65
Other major commercial API
0.59

Higher is better. Source: SimpleQA benchmark.

Pricing

Starter

$5 / 1k requests

  • Best for: hypothesis testing
  • Pay as you go
  • Limited throughput
Start

Pro early bird

$3.5 / 1k requests

  • Best for: chat assistants
  • Limited offer: lock price until 1 Nov
  • Valid while purchasing 300k requests/month
Choose Early bird

Enterprise

Custom

  • Best for: private search engines and large data providers
  • Millions of requests
  • Dedicated quotas
  • SLA and 24/7 support
Contact sales

FAQ

Are Yandex’s search results good?

Yes. According to the Cloudflare Radar Year in Review 2024, Yandex ranks in the global Top 2 search engines. Yandex supports strong, high-quality results.

Cloudflare Radar — Year in Review 2024

What are your limits and latency?

Contact us for current latency SLOs and throughput limits by plan. Higher dedicated limits are available on Enterprise.

Why is this faster than SERP parsers?

We use our own large web index instead of live SERP scraping, avoiding scraping overhead and rate limits to deliver results faster.

What types of search are supported?

The API supports text, image, and web search. Results are delivered in under one second with high availability (99.9%).

How does pricing and request limits work?

We offer flexible pricing plans based on request volume. Free trial or demo keys are available for testing.

Can I use this in commercial products?

Yes. Usage is governed by our terms and data processing agreement. Follow search data usage requirements.

How can I get support?

You can reach us through the contact form on the site.

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