Octen

Octen is a web search API purpose-built for AI agents and large language models. Unlike a standard search engine that returns a list of blue links, Octen delivers structured, real-time results with source citations, ready for AI consumption. It continuously indexes the web and can answer complex queries by breaking them into multiple sub-queries that run in parallel, returning comprehensive results in under 70 milliseconds on average.

The API is designed to be "LLM-native" — it understands natural language queries and returns data in a format that AI models can easily parse. Octen's infrastructure emphasizes low latency and high reliability, making it suitable for production AI systems that cannot afford downtime or slow responses. The platform also offers an API platform for developers to integrate search capabilities into their applications quickly.

Octen is ideal for developers and engineering teams building AI agents, chatbots, or any application that requires real-time web data. Common use cases include providing customer service agents with up-to-date product information, grounding LLM responses with current events, and building research tools that aggregate live data from across the web. If you need a fast, reliable search layer for your AI product, Octen provides the infrastructure.