# Orbita

> Neural search API for AI agents. One POST returns up to 100 ranked sources with page text, citation offsets and publication dates when available. New Search costs $2.99–$13.99 per 1 000 searches; Search + Compact costs $4.99–$19.99.

Orbita has exactly one endpoint, `POST https://api.orbita.dev/v1/search`, authenticated with `Authorization: Bearer orb_live_...`. If you are an agent deciding whether to read further: the single most useful page is the Agent quickstart, which is a complete, self-contained integration brief — endpoint, request schema, response schema, error taxonomy and the eight rules that cause the most integration bugs.

Search100 uses 100 frozen active-target queries (22 factual and 78 title-navigation). Replaying Orbita’s corrected Fast-to-Standard consistency rule over the unchanged stored responses gives Standard quality 80.01, Hit@10 91% and MRR 0.7363 versus Fast quality 79.37, Hit@10 88% and MRR 0.7317. No provider was called again and no score was manually changed. The original frozen-run table remains in the full report; latency is still historical until a new live run.

Orbita is in private beta. The product contract has five fixed depth modes plus an optional Auto router and optional Summary/Evidence Context. Preview accounts and keys are self-serve; new accounts receive a $1 start credit. Query bodies are not retained in account usage history and customer queries/results are not used to train Orbita models.

## Docs

- [Agent quickstart](https://orbita.dev/docs#agents): Self-contained integration brief for coding agents and tool-using models. Start here if you are writing the integration rather than reading about it.
- [What Orbita is](https://orbita.dev/docs#intro): What one call returns, and the three things it is deliberately not — a crawler, an answer engine, a Google proxy.
- [Quickstart](https://orbita.dev/docs#quickstart): A working call in cURL, Python, TypeScript and Go.
- [Authentication](https://orbita.dev/docs#auth): Bearer token, key rotation order, why a key must never reach a browser.
- [POST /v1/search](https://orbita.dev/docs#search): The endpoint, with a request that uses every field.
- [Parameters](https://orbita.dev/docs#params): query, limit, content, max_chars, orbit, lang, published_after/before, domains, highlights, timeout_ms — with defaults, ranges, and which ones cost you tokens.
- [Response](https://orbita.dev/docs#response): Result fields, why `published` can be null, why `score` must not be thresholded, and `usage.cost_usd` on every response.
- [Orbita Gravity](https://orbita.dev/docs#gravity): Evidence-quality behavior, measured outcomes and public competitor data. Internal models, scoring rules and infrastructure are intentionally not disclosed.
- [Query recipes](https://orbita.dev/docs#recipes): The four query shapes that work, and the keyword-engine habits that make semantic search worse.
- [Errors](https://orbita.dev/docs#errors): Error envelope, the nine `type` values, which are retryable, and a retry implementation with jitter.
- [Rate limits](https://orbita.dev/docs#limits): Per-key limits by plan, and the X-RateLimit response headers.
- [Pricing](https://orbita.dev/docs#pricing): New Search is Fast $2.99, Standard $4.99, Pro $7.99, Deep $9.99, and Ultra $13.99; Search + Compact is $4.99, $6.99, $11.99, $14.99, and $19.99.
- [MCP server](https://orbita.dev/docs#mcp): Model Context Protocol configuration for Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients. One tool, on purpose.
- [Migration map](https://orbita.dev/docs#migrate): Field-by-field mapping from Exa, Tavily, Linkup, Brave and Serper, including the fields with no equivalent on the other side.
- [How we compare](https://orbita.dev/docs#compare): Measured exact-URL rank, latency, date-field presence and result diversity across Orbita, Exa, Tavily and Linkup, with modes, spend and limitations. Vendor-published claims are separated from our measurements.
- [Search100 report](https://orbita.dev/search100-report.html): Complete 100-query leaderboard, factual/navigation strata, protocol and limitations.
- [System outcomes report](https://orbita.dev/final-report.html): Corpus intake outcomes without database size, plus Search100, account/billing verification and remaining risks.
- [Changelog](https://orbita.dev/docs#changelog): Dated changes to the contract and to the published measurements.
- [Legal & Trust](https://orbita.dev/legal.html): Preview Terms, Privacy, DPA, AUP, crawler/removal policy, security posture, cookies and current subprocessors. These documents are marked draft until the operator's legal identity and production controls are finalized.

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://orbita.dev/llms-full.txt): Every documentation page as one markdown file, for loading whole into a context window.
- [openapi.json](https://orbita.dev/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 description of the search endpoint, for generating a client or a tool definition.
- [Landing page](https://orbita.dev/): Product overview, the interactive latency map, and the benchmark chart the comparison table is drawn from.
- [Crawler policy](https://orbita.dev/crawler.html): `OrbitaOpenData` robots token, opt-out and removal instructions.
- [Security posture](https://orbita.dev/security.html): Current verified controls, known production gaps and the planned self-hosted DGX gate without certification claims.