# Kuaisou Platform Docs

The Kuaisou platform offers web search and web page content extraction as HTTP APIs for LLM applications, agents and search products. This is the API reference.

## APIs

| API | What it does | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Web Search](/en/web-search) | Send a query, get page titles, links and snippets; supports `site:` and other search operators | Available |
| [Read Webpage](/en/read-webpage) | Send a URL, get the page's main content as Markdown or JSON | Available |
| [AI Search](/en/ai-search) | Search, then have an LLM write an answer with sources | Coming soon |
| [Fast Research](/en/fast-research) | Search and read in several rounds around one question and produce a report | Coming soon |

## Get started in three steps

1. Sign up on the [Kuaisou platform](https://platform.kuaisou.com/) and create an API key in the [console](https://platform.kuaisou.com/console/keys).
2. Send `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY` with every request.
3. Follow the [Quickstart](/en/quickstart) to send your first request.

## Billing

You are charged per successful call; failed calls are free. See the price table on the [platform home page](https://platform.kuaisou.com/). Your balance and every call are listed in the console.