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PayAI Cited Answer (RAG)
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PayAI Cited Answer (RAG) is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Answers a natural-language question by searching the public web, reading top pages, and synthesizing a grounded response with cited source URLs to minimize hallucination.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Cited answer (RAG): a natural-language question is answered by searching the public web, reading the top pages and synthesizing a grounded answer with a list of source URLs. Answer cites only the retrieved sources (anti-hallucination).
Output
A synthesized natural-language answer to the posed question, grounded exclusively in retrieved web pages, accompanied by a list of source URLs that back each claim — designed to minimize hallucination by citing only what was actually found.
Example use cases
Current events fact-check with sources
“What actually happened with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse — can you search the web and give me a grounded, cited summary from real sources, limited to news from the past month?”
Competitive research for a product team
“What are the main differences between Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT-4o as of today? Search the web, read up to 5 pages, and give me an answer with citations so I can verify each claim.”
Regulatory question for compliance
“What are the current SEC rules on crypto token classification as securities? Look it up using recent sources from the past year and give me a cited answer.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://payai.agentstools.dev/answerWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a factual, sourced answer to a natural-language question and hallucination risk is unacceptable — particularly for current events, recent data, or niche topics not reliably in a model's training data. Prefer it over raw LLM answers when citations are required for verification, and over generic web search when you need synthesis rather than a list of links.
Side effects
- No relevant pages found for the query — empty or low-quality answer returned
- Query too vague to surface useful web results
- Timelimit filter too narrow — no results within that time window
- max_sources set to 1 may yield thin or one-sided answers
- Web pages behind paywalls or bot-blocks may not be readable
- Rate limit or payment failure returns 402 error
Input
Schema · Request body
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| output | object |
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