Cited Answers API: Facts with Sources for AI Agents
Pricing
from $75.00 / 1,000 grounded answer with citations
Ask a question, get a short factual answer with citations from live Google Search grounding. One row per question: answer, sources with resolved URLs and the exact text each source supports. Questions that return no citations are flagged and never charged.
Questions to answer, one per entry. Up to 20 per run, up to 1000 characters each. Each question gets one row: a short factual answer plus the sources Google Search found for it. A question the search cannot back with at least one citation gets a row flagged grounded=false and is not charged.
Gemini model that writes the answer. All use Google Search grounding. The default is the cheapest and is right for most factual lookups; the larger models write better multi-part answers.
Language the answer is written in, for example Japanese or Thai. Added to the instructions as a hint. Leave empty to answer in the language of the question.
Country the facts should apply to, for example Japan or Brazil. Added to the instructions as a hint, not a filter: sources are still chosen by Google Search. Leave empty for no focus.
