Octen
Real-time web search and retrieval API built for AI agents and LLM apps
Introduction
Octen is search infrastructure for AI agents, copilots and chatbots. It splits a question into sub-queries, runs them in parallel and returns structured results, with web, image and video search plus URL-to-markdown extraction.
- Added on
- Nov 2, 2026
- Website
- octen.ai
- Pricing model
- Free Trial
Product information
What is Octen?
Octen is a real-time search and retrieval API for AI applications. Instead of a single results page, it breaks a question into multiple sub-queries, executes them concurrently and returns structured output that models can use directly.
How to use Octen?
Create an account, get an API key from the API Platform, and send search requests via the API or SDKs. You can also connect through Skills, MCP or the CLI so an agent can submit complex questions.
Core features of Octen
- Concurrent multi-query web search
- Real-time indexing with sub-100ms retrieval
- Web, image and video search
- URL-to-markdown extraction
- Text and multimodal embeddings
- API, SDK, MCP, Skills and CLI access
Use cases of Octen
- 1Agents that answer with up-to-date web information
- 2Grounding LLM answers in live sources
- 3Enterprise search and research apps
- 4Giving copilots and chatbots live web context
- 5Extracting clean page content for AI pipelines
Frequently asked questions about Octen
How is Octen different from traditional web search?+
It decomposes a question into several sub-queries, runs them concurrently and returns structured results for AI systems rather than one sequential results page.
How do I start using Octen?+
Sign up, get an API key on the API Platform, then call the API or connect via SDK, MCP, Skills or CLI.
Which category is Octen in?+
Octen is listed under AI Search Engine.