Lava Search

Lava’s first-party fan-out search aggregator: one HTTP call across 9 brokered providers (Tavily, Exa, Jina, Parallel, Perplexity Sonar, Firecrawl, Lava News, Serper, Brave) returning a unified normalized result set in /sources, or an LLM-synthesized answer with citations in /answer (sources are not echoed back — call /sources separately if you need them). Best for agents that need broad cross-source coverage in a single round-trip with explicit partial-failure surfacing. Charges upstream costs plus a

0.005 markup on `/sources`, or a

0.03 markup plus LLM token cost on /answer. 2 endpoints available through Lava’s AI Gateway. See the Lava Search API docs for full documentation.

This provider is managed — no additional setup required.

Endpoints

Fan out a query across the 9 default providers (or a caller-specified subset) and return aggregated normalized results plus per-provider failure surfacing. Charges upstream provider costs plus a $0.005 markup.

POST https://api.lava.so/v1/search/sources — $0.005 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.lava.so/v1/search/sources', { body: {"q":"GLP-1 cardiovascular outcomes 2026 meta-analyses"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.lava.so%2Fv1%2Fsearch%2Fsources" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"GLP-1 cardiovascular outcomes 2026 meta-analyses"}'

Same fan-out as /sources plus an LLM synthesis pass — returns `{ answer, citations, cost }` (sources are not echoed back; call /sources separately if you need them). Charges $0.03 markup plus LLM token cost plus upstream fanout costs.

POST https://api.lava.so/v1/search/answer — $0.03 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.lava.so/v1/search/answer', {
  body: {
"q": "Halo2 vs PLONK vs Spartan tradeoffs for zk-SNARKs without trusted setup"
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.lava.so%2Fv1%2Fsearch%2Fanswer" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"Halo2 vs PLONK vs Spartan tradeoffs for zk-SNARKs without trusted setup"}'

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Endpoints

Fan out a query across the 9 default providers (or a caller-specified subset) and return aggregated normalized results plus per-provider failure surfacing. Charges upstream provider costs plus a $0.005 markup.

Same fan-out as /sources plus an LLM synthesis pass — returns `{ answer, citations, cost }` (sources are not echoed back; call /sources separately if you need them). Charges $0.03 markup plus LLM token cost plus upstream fanout costs.

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​Endpoints

​Fan out a query across the 9 default providers (or a caller-specified subset) and return aggregated normalized results plus per-provider failure surfacing. Charges upstream provider costs plus a $0.005 markup.

​Same fan-out as /sources plus an LLM synthesis pass — returns { answer, citations, cost } (sources are not echoed back; call /sources separately if you need them). Charges $0.03 markup plus LLM token cost plus upstream fanout costs.

​Next Steps

All Providers

Forward Proxy

Endpoints

Fan out a query across the 9 default providers (or a caller-specified subset) and return aggregated normalized results plus per-provider failure surfacing. Charges upstream provider costs plus a $0.005 markup.

Same fan-out as /sources plus an LLM synthesis pass — returns `{ answer, citations, cost }` (sources are not echoed back; call /sources separately if you need them). Charges $0.03 markup plus LLM token cost plus upstream fanout costs.

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