# Context.dev Web Search

> Context.dev Web Search is a paid API for AI agents from Context.dev at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Performs an intelligent web search and returns ranked results, charging 1 credit per returned result.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/context-dev/web/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Context.dev
- Docs: https://www.context.dev
- Website: https://www.context.dev
- Tags: scraping, brand, context, extraction, web, data
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/context-dev-web-search-1bb03659
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NqTeSCZuHg4XXT2urYSTw

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability context-dev-web-search-1bb03659 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the web for the top 5 results about 'best open-source vector databases in 2024' and return the titles and URLs.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need live, ranked web search results from the open internet — especially when you want fresh, real-time information beyond a static knowledge base. Prefer this over scraping a specific URL when you don't know which URLs to visit yet and need discovery. Best suited for broad keyword or topic searches where ranking and relevance matter.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or empty query returns an error
- Insufficient credits results in a payment or quota error
- Network timeout if the search takes too long
- Malformed request body returns a 400 error
- No results found for highly obscure or malformed queries

## How this service works

Performs an intelligent web search. Costs 1 credit per returned result.

## Output

A list of ranked web search results, each including a URL, page title, and snippet, with 1 credit consumed per result returned.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/context-dev-web-search-1bb03659/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)