We’re releasing Linkup Flash, a new depth value for the Search endpoint. "flash" is our lowest-latency search mode: ranked sources and snippets in under 200 ms.
What’s new
"flash" uses a more direct search pipeline than "fast", "standard", or "deep":
"flash": lowest latency. One piece of information, one direct answer. No query reinterpretation, no scraping.
"fast": higher-quality one-shot retrieval in about a second. Still no agentic planning.
"standard": single-iteration agentic search for queries that span several topics or sources.
"deep": multi-iteration agentic search-and-scrape.
How to use
Set depth to "flash" in your API request:
"flash" and "fast" pass the query to the index as-is. Keep prompts short and keyword-shaped. For instruction-style prompts (scrape this URL, then search again), use "standard" or "deep".
When to use each depth
Pricing
"flash" costs **0.005percall∗∗with‘outputType:"searchResults"‘,thesameas‘"fast"‘and‘"standard"‘.‘"sourcedAnswer"‘and‘"structured"‘are0.006 per call.
For more details, see Search overview.