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Miapi

Web-grounded AI answers API with citations at lowest cost

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What is Miapi?

MIAPI is the most accurate web-grounded AI answers API at the lowest price point. At 89% on the SimpleQA benchmark, it outperforms Perplexity Sonar Large (~87%) and GPT-4o mini (~82%) — while costing $2.50-$3.60/1K queries vs Perplexity's $5-14 and OpenAI's $10-15. One API call returns a sourced answer with citations, confidence score, and source URLs. No RAG pipeline needed. OpenAI-compatible, with streaming, news search, and a free tier. Built by a solo developer. Try the playground.

How to use Miapi

  1. 1

    Sign up and get your API key from the dashboard.

  2. 2

    Make a POST request to /v1/answer with your question and desired options.

  3. 3

    Receive a JSON response with the answer, citations, sources, and confidence score.

  4. 4

    Optionally, integrate with OpenAI client by changing base_url to https://api.miapi.uk/v1.

  5. 5

    Explore other endpoints like /v1/chat/completions, news, or image search.

Key features

Web-grounded answers with inline citations and source URLs for every query.

OpenAI-compatible endpoint: change one URL and your existing code works instantly.

News and image search endpoints for real-time intelligence.

Knowledge mode to combine web search with your own documents for RAG.

Streaming support via Server-Sent Events, plus search-only mode for raw results.

Use cases

  • Build AI search applications that deliver factual, cited answers from the web.
  • Enhance chatbots with real-time web grounding to reduce hallucinations.
  • Create RAG pipelines by combining custom documents with web search results.
  • Aggregate news articles and images for media monitoring dashboards.
  • Replace expensive chat completion APIs with a cheaper, web-grounded alternative.

Best for

DevelopersIndie hackersSaaS foundersAI engineersCost-conscious startupsRAG pipeline builders

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Frequently asked questions about Miapi

Common questions to help you decide if Miapi is right for you.

MIAPI uses real-time web search and grounding to produce fact-based answers, scoring 89% on SimpleQA compared to Perplexity's ~87% and GPT-4o mini's ~82%.

Yes, MIAPI offers a free tier with limited queries. Check the official site for current free quota and pricing details.

Simply change the base_url to https://api.miapi.uk/v1 in your OpenAI client code. All other parameters remain the same.

Average response time is ~1.1 seconds, with built-in caching that returns repeat queries in about 1 millisecond.

Yes, MIAPI provides dedicated /v1/news and /v1/images endpoints for real-time news and image search with metadata.

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