Octen claims 62 ms web search for AI agents and $1 per 1,000 calls
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-22
Octen says it rebuilt web search for AI agents instead of humans.
The post argues that agents explore a question across many paths at once, so legacy search APIs are the wrong abstraction. Octen claims a machine-oriented stack with index, ranking, and serving layers, and highlights 62 ms latency and $1 per 1,000 calls.
The attached benchmark image shows Octen at P50 62 ms / P90 68 ms, far ahead of competitors such as Tavily Ultra-Fast, Parallel Turbo, Exa Instant, and Parallel Adv.
Related event: Octen Launches Ultra-Low Latency Search for AI Agents(3 posts)→
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