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SiftQ vs
Bing Web Search API.

SiftQ trades raw index size for an agent-purposed response shape, neural ranking, and a free tier with predictable pricing.

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TL;DR

Bing for procurement and scale. SiftQ for agent-shaped retrieval and per-query economics.

SiftQ

Why pick us

You are building a focused agent product and want a retrieval API designed for that use case, not a SERP wrapper.

  • ✓Agent-shaped responses
  • ✓Structured output
  • ✓Verticalized indexes
  • ✓~50% cheaper at scale
Bing Web Search API

Why pick them

You are an Azure shop and need procurement-safe enterprise search at any scale.

  • •Massive index
  • •Enterprise procurement easy
  • •Azure billing
  • •Mature SLA
Side by side

At a glance.

Preview · numbers below are illustrative pending audited benchmarks

SiftQBing Web Search API
Index size1.2T pages10T+
Agent-shaped responseyesno
Structured outputyesno
Free tier1,000/mo1,000/mo (S1)
Per-query at scale$0.003$0.007
PricingFree 1,000/mo, $3/CPM at scale.Azure-billed, ~$3-7/CPM depending on tier.
Bing Web Search API's positioning

Bing has the deepest index after Google and is the de-facto enterprise procurement-safe option.

SiftQ's positioning

SiftQ trades raw index size for an agent-purposed response shape, neural ranking, and a free tier with predictable pricing.

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Try it on your
actual workload.

The truest benchmark is your own queries. SiftQ's free tier gives you 1,000 / month, no credit card.

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