Build research agents. Cited answers, at any scale.
Ask a research question and get structured findings with source URLs from the Answers API, or run your own agent loop on Search and Scrape. From one company to a million pages.
100 Fast-mode answers free every month · no card required
Who owns the Grand Meridian Hotel, and who manages it?
fast
RESEARCH RUN
- Searched the web4 queries
- Read pages9 pages
- Read company records2 records
- Filled your JSONdone
json_content
3 sources
{
"owner": "Meridian Hospitality Partners",
"operator": "Northgate Hotels",
"source_urls": [
"meridianhp.com/portfolio",
"northgatehotels.com/properties",
"cityrecords.gov/permits/4471"
]
}Structured answer with sources
10 credits
POST /v1/web/answers
Research agents built on Context.dev
Sixtyfour
Bystreet
SimilarwebOpenTag
Gene Inspector
Locke
“It’s been very plug and play. We’ve done well over a million scrapes with it at this point and haven’t had any issues.”
- scrapes behind Bystreet’s ownership research, without issues
- 1M+
- for Sixtyfour to test production research workloads
- < 1 hour
Ask a question. Get cited answers.
Describe the task and the JSON shape you want back. Answers searches the web, reads the pages, and fills in your fields with the URLs it used.
- SearchFinds the relevant pages on the live web
- ReadPages and company records, rendered and parsed
- ReturnYour JSON shape, with source URLs
npm install context.devresearch.ts
What teams research with Context.dev.
Research agents our customers run in production, from hotel ownership to genetics.
Ownership and company research
Research the ownership structure of every hotel, across a million-plus scrapes.
BystreetPeople and GTM research
Give an AI coworker live, sourced people and company research for CRM work.
OpenTagScientific literature
Connect a research agent to open-access studies and current genetics research.
Gene Inspector ProMarket intelligence
Give AI agents the web datapoints they need without building it in house.
SimilarwebGovernment affairs
Turn agency pages into research, then watch those sources for changes.
LockeResearch at production scale
Scraping infrastructure for research agents, tested on production workloads in an hour.
Sixtyfour
Skip the research loop you’d have to build.
What a homegrown research agent needs before it returns a sourced answer, and what Answers does in one call.
| Compare | Homegrown agent loopbuild and maintain | Context.devone API key |
|---|---|---|
| Finding sources | A search API and your own query planning | Search built into every answer |
| Reading pages | Scrapers, headless browsers, and proxies | Pages rendered and parsed for you |
| Structured output | Prompting and validating JSON yourself | Your json_format, filled in |
| Citations | Tracking URLs through every step | Source URLs returned with each answer |
| Cost | LLM tokens plus every API in the loop | 10 credits in Fast mode, 100 in Ultra |
Research agents, in their words.
All customer storiesResearch agents, answered.
More details in the API documentation.
What is a research agent?
A research agent takes a question, searches the web, reads the relevant pages, and returns findings with the sources it used. With Context.dev you can call the Answers API for a structured, cited answer, or build your own loop on the Search and Scrape APIs.
What’s the difference between Fast and Ultra mode?
Fast mode costs 10 credits per answer and suits quick lookups. Ultra, the default mode, costs 100 credits per answer and researches each question in more depth.
How do research agents avoid hallucinations?
Every Answers response includes the source URLs it read, so you can check each finding or show citations to users. Asking for a source_urls field in your json_format ties each answer to its evidence.
Can I run research across thousands of companies?
Yes. Call Answers in parallel within your plan’s concurrency, or scrape source pages in bulk with Batches, up to 25,000 URLs per job, and run your own agent over the results. Bystreet has run well over a million scrapes for its hotel research.
Run your first research task.
1,000 free credits every month, enough for 100 answers in Fast mode. No credit card required.