Search POST /v1/tools/search
Fresh answers
Search the live web with the right balance of cost, speed, and result quality.
Route Tools The tool layer for AI agents
Accession RT·2026·09 9 categories · 30 providers Fol. 01
One API.Every tool provider.
From search and scraping to speech, video, embeddings, and secure code execution, all through one endpoint. Choose price, speed, or quality. We route each request to the right provider and fail over when it matters.
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Live routing preview · Sheet 04 POST /v1/tools/search
query "Latest advances in solid-state batteries"
| Rank | Provider | Price / 1k |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Serper | $1.20 / 1k |
| 02 | Brave | $6.00 / 1k |
| 03 | Exa | $8.40 / 1k |
resultSerper selected for lowest price
this call$0.0012
Failover is armed on every call. The next eligible provider takes over before the failure reaches
your agent
Fol. 02
The floor
Named here, never named in your code.
Your request asks for a category. These are the houses that can fill it. Add one, drop one, or reorder them in the dashboard and every key on the account follows immediately.
- 01Serper
- 02Brave Search
- 03You.com
- 04Exa
- 05Perplexity
- 06Firecrawl Search
- 07Jina Reader
- 08Spider
- 09Firecrawl
- 10Mistral OCR
- 11LlamaParse
- 12Reducto
- 13fal.ai
- 14Replicate
- 15OpenAI Images
- 16DeepInfra
- 17Grok (xAI)
- 18fal.ai Video
- 19Replicate Video
- 20ElevenLabs
- 21LMNT
- 22Deepgram Aura
- 23Deepgram Nova
- 24Groq Whisper
- 25ElevenLabs Scribe
- 26OpenAI Embeddings
- 27Mixedbread
- 28DeepInfra Embeddings
- 29E2B
- 30Daytona
Infrastructure that stays invisible, right up until you need it.
Fig. 0130providers behind one API
Fig. 029tool categories with one schema
Fig. 031key, bill, and integration
Fol. 03–04
01 / The toolbox
Everything your agent reaches for.
A clean, normalized interface across every tool category. Change providers, or let the router do it, without rewriting your product.
Search
Scrape POST /v1/tools/scrape
Clean content
Turn any URL into agent-ready content, with automatic retries when a page fights back.
Parse POST /v1/tools/parse
Structured docs
Extract reliable text and structure from PDFs, forms, reports, and scanned documents.
Generate POST /v1/tools/image
Original images
Create production-ready visuals without integrating and maintaining every image model.
Video POST /v1/tools/video
Generated motion
Create short clips through hosted video models without building a queue for every provider.
Speak POST /v1/tools/speech
Text to speech
Give agents natural voices with consistent audio controls across leading speech providers.
Transcribe POST /v1/tools/transcribe
Audio to text
Turn recordings into accurate text while routing for the price or quality your workflow needs.
Embed POST /v1/tools/embed
Text to vectors
Create retrieval-ready embeddings in batches without coupling your indexer to one model host.
Execute POST /v1/tools/code
Secure sandboxes
Run untrusted code in isolated sandboxes, with provider flexibility built in.
02 / Why route
Provider chaos, abstracted away.
Fol. 05
02 / Why route
Provider chaos, abstracted away.
Your agent asks for a capability. Route Tools handles selection, metering, normalization, and recovery behind the scenes.
Without Route Tools
- 01Separate SDKs and credentials
- 02Incompatible request schemas
- 03Manual retries and fallback logic
- 04Scattered usage and invoices
With Route Tools
- 01One API key and normalized schema
- 02Automatic provider selection
- 03Failover before your agent notices
- 04One usage view and prepaid balance
Optimize every call
Use sort: "price", "latency", or "quality" at request time. No
account hopping required.
Fail over automatically
Rate limit, timeout, or outage? The next eligible provider takes over before the failure reaches your agent.
Ship against one schema
Consistent inputs and outputs per tool category keep provider-specific quirks out of your application code.
Fol. 06–07
03 / Integration
One endpoint. A few lines.
Use the TypeScript SDK, call the REST API directly, or connect any MCP-compatible client. Same routing engine underneath.
// npm install route-tools
import { RouteTools } from 'route-tools';
const rt = new RouteTools({
apiKey: process.env.ROUTE_TOOLS_API_KEY
});
const { result, provider, usage } = await rt.search({
query: 'Latest advances in solid-state batteries',
routing: { sort: 'quality' }
});curl https://api.route.tools/v1/tools/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer rt_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"query": "Latest advances in solid-state batteries",
"routing": { "sort": "quality" }
}'{
"mcpServers": {
"route-tools": {
"url": "https://api.route.tools/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer rt_live_..."
}
}
}
} Base URL · https://api.route.tools/v1/tools/{category}
Fol. 08
04 / Pricing
Usage in. Usage out.
No platform plan and no provider subscriptions to juggle. Add credits, make calls, and pay only for what runs.
Rates by category · Tariff, rev. 2026·08 per unit
Search Serper · Brave Search · You.com · Exa · Perplexity · Firecrawl Search $1.20 – $8.40 / 1k searches
Scrape Jina Reader · Spider · Firecrawl $0.36 – $1.92 / 1k pages
Parse Mistral OCR · LlamaParse · Reducto $1.50 – $2.40 / 1k pages
Generate fal.ai · Replicate · OpenAI Images · DeepInfra · Grok (xAI) $0.01 – $0.08 / image
Video fal.ai Video · Replicate Video $0.05 – $0.06 / clip-second
Speak ElevenLabs · LMNT · Deepgram Aura $0.04 – $0.12 / 1k characters
Transcribe Deepgram Nova · Groq Whisper · ElevenLabs Scribe $0.0008 – $0.0080 / audio minute
Embed OpenAI Embeddings · Mixedbread · DeepInfra Embeddings $0.01 – $0.07 / 1M tokens
Execute E2B · Daytona $0.0000 – $0.0000 / vCPU-second
Annex A · Fol. 09 Selection, in four steps
How a provider gets the call.
- Candidates. Every provider for the category, intersected with your allowlist, minus any that cannot serve the request.
- Circuit breaker. Providers above a 30% error rate over the last five minutes are skipped while a healthy alternative exists.
- Sort. By static price, live rolling p50 latency, or curated quality score. Ties break on the other two dimensions.
- Failover. The top candidate is called with a per-category timeout. On a timeout, 5xx, 429, or malformed response, the next one is tried, up to three attempts. Only the winning provider is billed.
Ready when you are
Give your agent the right tools.
One integration now. Every provider you need next.