Miapi

Key features

• Provides AI-generated answers sourced from real-time web search with citations and confidence scores.
• Compatible with OpenAI's API, allowing for easy integration as a drop-in replacement.
• Supports conversation memory for context-aware follow-up questions within a session.
• Offers a knowledge mode to answer questions from user-provided documents or combine with web search.
• Includes endpoints for news and image search, returning structured results with metadata.
• Provides streaming responses via Server-Sent Events for real-time answer generation.
• Allows raw search results retrieval for custom pipelines or bring-your-own-model setups.
• Python SDK available for quick integration and full API access.

Use cases

• Integrating real-time, web-grounded answers with citations into chatbots or virtual assistants.
• Replacing OpenAI's API in existing applications to add web search grounding and citations.
• Building custom knowledge assistants that answer from both proprietary documents and the web.
• Fetching up-to-date news articles or images for use in apps or dashboards.

Pros

• Free tier with 100 queries per month and all endpoints included.
• No subscription required; prepaid query packs never expire.
• OpenAI-compatible, enabling easy migration for existing applications.
• Live playground demo available without signup.

Limitations

• Demo endpoint is rate-limited to 20 queries per minute and 500 character questions.

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