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).

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.

Supports both managed (Lava’s API keys) and unmanaged (bring your own credentials) mode.

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

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

cURL

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

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

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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