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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 **0.005percallwithoutputType:"searchResults",thesameas"fast"and"standard"."sourcedAnswer"and"structured"are0.005 per call** with `outputType: "searchResults"`, the same as `"fast"` and `"standard"`. `"sourcedAnswer"` and `"structured"` are 0.006 per call. For more details, see Search overview.