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- 7K
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- Freemium
- Builder, Pro, Max, Enterprise
- Added
- 2026-08-17 18:24:45
About Octen
Octen provides real-time access to the live web through a search API designed for speed and scalability. It targets AI agents, developers, and enterprises who need up-to-date information with low latency and reliable results. The platform emphasizes real-time indexing, low latency, and high reliability as core traits and offers a route to embed live web context into AI workflows.
The product describes its retrieval stack as capable of pulling content from URLs, extracting meaningful highlights, and classifying pages.
Octen supports multiple modes of search and retrieval, including single and concurrent query processing, semantic and multimodal search, and specialized APIs for images and videos. It also highlights embedding models for text and multimodal retrieval and presents a suite of tools and integrations aimed at powering AI agents with real-time context.
It references an account balance, free credits, and a pathway from API keys to agent integration, with mentions of enterprise and custom plans, and deployment surfaces such as Skills, MCP, and CLI.
Use cases
- Autonomous ticket resolution, chat
- Grounded research across thousands of pages and documents
Key features
- LLM-native web search that delivers real-time intelligence with low latency and enterprise-grade reliability.
- Real-time indexing with low latency and high reliability.
- A complete retrieval stack including extraction and embeddings.
- URL-to-markdown extraction with page classification and highlights.
- Multimodal search and chat capabilities across text, images, and videos.
- Embeddings for text and multimodal retrieval, including VL embeddings.
- A unified API for access to leading frontier models with real-time web search built in.
Pros and cons
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Pricing
- Up to 50 QPS
- Dedicated priority queue
- Guaranteed throughput and SLA
- Standard email support
- Up to 200 QPS
- Dedicated priority queue
- Guaranteed throughput and SLA
- Standard email support
- Up to 500 QPS
- Dedicated priority queue
- Guaranteed throughput and SLA
- Standard email support
- 1M+ QPS
- Zero Data Retention (ZDR)
- Dedicated Slack channel support
- Volume discounts
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