--- source_url: "https://tako.com/?utm_source=openai" title: "Web and Data Search API for AI Agents | Tako" mirrored_at: 2026-08-29T03:03:08.028Z host: tako.com cited_in_42a: true mirror_canonical: "https://index.42a.ai/tako.com/index__q__utm_source_openai" --- > **Original source:** https://tako.com/?utm_source=openai ## Give your agents authoritative weather data. Comprehensive coverage across trusted data providers, so your agents can access the right context for every question. ### Weather - Weather Forecasts - Air Quality - Average Weather ### Stocks - New York Stock Exchange - Nasdaq Stock Market - Tokyo Stock Exchange ### Prices - Cryptocurrencies - Foreign Exchange Rates - US Treasury Yield Curves ### Sports - NFL - NBA - Champions League ### Politics - Public Opinion Polling - Prediction Markets - Election Results ### Macroeconomics - Trade Metrics - US Money Supply - Employment Statistics ### Company - Earnings & Estimates - Private Company Funding - Web Traffic Analytics Tako knowledge graph: 950K+ nodes · 9M+ edges Metrics 100K+ Data points 10B+ Data sources 230+ ## Structured data, not just text Purpose built for data analysis, visualization, and artifacts. ## One API family for all your grounding needs ### Search API Real-time search grounded in our curated index of data and the web. ![Tako Search API results grounded in data and web sources](https://d12w4pyrrczi5e.cloudfront.net/archive/fafacd54c170aba3477bf256cfbab21d08373b3d/homepage/apis/search.webp) ### Answer API Direct, cited answers to natural-language questions. ![Tako Answer API returning a cited answer card](https://d12w4pyrrczi5e.cloudfront.net/archive/fafacd54c170aba3477bf256cfbab21d08373b3d/homepage/apis/answer.webp) ### Contents API The data backing our answers and full page contents from the web. ![Tako Contents API structured JSON response](https://d12w4pyrrczi5e.cloudfront.net/archive/fafacd54c170aba3477bf256cfbab21d08373b3d/homepage/apis/contents.webp) ### Agent API Async agents for deep research and enrichment. ![Tako Agent API running an async deep-research task](https://d12w4pyrrczi5e.cloudfront.net/archive/fafacd54c170aba3477bf256cfbab21d08373b3d/homepage/apis/agent_poster.jpg) ## How Tako compares to other search APIs Strong performance on standard search benchmarks, with an edge on harder questions requiring reasoning and numerical precision. ### Agent Efficiency Highest accuracy of any research agent, in seconds rather than minutes. #### FinSearchComp T2 Historical financial lookups, one figure for a given company and period. #### FinSearchComp T3 Complex financial questions that need several figures fetched, then computed. ### Vertical Real-Time Search Tako Answer scores 66.4% on live, domain-specific questions, 21% higher than the next-best search API. #### VerticalRTK Tako's own benchmark of live questions whose answers change by the day. [Learn more](https://tako.com/blog/evaluating-a-new-kind-of-search-api/) ### Accuracy Level with the best web search APIs on SimpleQA and FinSearchComp T2, and ahead on FRAMES and T3. #### FinSearchComp T3 Complex financial questions that need several figures fetched, then computed. #### FinSearchComp T2 Historical financial lookups, one figure for a given company and period. #### SimpleQA Short factual questions, each with a single verifiable answer. #### FRAMES Multi-hop questions answered by assembling several documents. ### Latency Web + premium data in ~500 ms, with no added latency. On par with the fastest web search APIs. [Start building for free](https://tako.com/console) [View benchmark report](https://tako.com/blog/evaluating-a-new-kind-of-search-api/) ## Works with your AI stack Tako has a free MCP server and plugin that gives your agents access to premium information and data. Install it and try it in seconds. ## Enterprise Ready Built with trusted security and privacy by default. ### Zero Data Retention Requests are processed without retaining prompts or outputs, helping protect sensitive data and support enterprise compliance. ### SOC 2 Verified Independently audited and compliant with SOC 2 standards, ensuring enterprise-grade security and operational controls. ### SLAs Guaranteed uptime and response-time commitments, backed by dedicated support for mission-critical workloads. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Tako? Tako is an answer engine API for authoritative data. It grounds AI applications and agents on a curated index of authoritative, licensed data — plus the web — and returns cited, structured answers as knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps) and JSON, via its search, answer, and contents APIs. ### How is Tako different from a traditional search engine or chatbot? Unlike generic search engines or AI chatbots that return paragraphs of unstructured text, Tako focuses on AI data visualization. It builds visually compelling, structured knowledge cards that cite their sources and are embeddable anywhere. It's like having an AI data analyst that turns your questions into beautiful, trustworthy insights. ### How can developers integrate Tako into their applications? Tako is built for developers and ships a family of APIs you can call directly or through the official SDKs: • Search API: Natural language in, structured knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps) out — grounded in our curated index of data and the web. • Answer API: Direct, cited answers to natural-language questions. • Contents API: The data backing our answers plus clean, full-page contents from the web, optimized for LLMs. • Agent API: Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment. • SDKs: The official Python (and TypeScript) SDKs handle authentication, requests, and response parsing. ### How does Tako ensure data accuracy and credibility? Tako uses reliable, structured, citable data so you're not guessing whether the information is correct. Tako knowledge cards are built for clarity, transparency, and trust. Each card includes: • Clear sources so you know where the data came from • Timestamps to show how recent the data is • Methodology notes that explain how the data was calculated, when applicable ### Is Tako free to use? You can try out some example queries for free on our playground. You can also sign up to get an API key with free credits. After that, you can purchase more credits or contact us to become an Enterprise customer.