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Research Tiers & Execution Modes

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Each mode trades latency and credit cost for research depth. Pick the shallowest tier that answers your question.

Tiers List

Speed (Ask)

~10–15s
0.25 cr ($0.0025)

Single-pass web search + fast synthesis. Best for direct factual questions and quick summaries.

Balanced

~25–40s
0.70 cr ($0.007)

Intelligent multi-source routing (Web, Academic, News, Discussions). Synthesizes answers with comprehensive citations.

Reason

~30–90s
0.90 cr ($0.009)

Multi-step reasoning with web grounding. Ideal for technical comparisons, debugging, and complex analysis.

Quality (Research)

60–180s
1.50 cr ($0.015)

Exhaustive multi-source deep research (2–3 iterations of search & crawl). Produces structured reports of 1,500+ words.

Deep

90–240s
2.40 cr ($0.024)

Maximum depth investigation with multi-hop verification, cross-domain crawling, and adversarial factuality checks.

Wide Research

60–120s
5.00 cr ($0.050)

Matrix comparison across up to 50 entities simultaneously with full source citations, downloadable as Markdown or CSV.