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Welcome to Staan
Staan is a REST API that gives developers and AI systems access to real-time web search results — built on the same search infrastructure as Qwant, Europe's leading privacy-first search engine.
What you can build
- Search bars and SERP UIs — ranked web results in clean JSON, ready to display
- RAG pipelines and LLM agents — scored content chunks and full page bodies, structured for context injection
- AI answer features — one endpoint in, one cited answer out, no LLM plumbing required
Endpoints at a glance
| Endpoint | Best for |
|---|---|
| Web Search | Fetching ranked web results for a query |
| Web Search for AI | RAG, agents, and context-augmented generation |
| Answer | Ready-to-ship AI answers with citations |
Why Staan
European by design. Your data stays under EU jurisdiction, in EU data centres. GDPR compliance is built in — no third-party tracking, no behavioural profiling.
Up to 9× cheaper than alternatives. Web Search starts at €1 / 1,000 requests. The first 1,000 are free.
Source-first results. Every result is linked to its origin — auditable, attributable, never a black box.
Authentication
All requests require a Bearer token:
Code
Sign up at staan.ai to get your free API key and 1,000 requests/month.
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