# 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](https://qwant.com), 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](/docs/web-search)        | Fetching ranked web results for a query       |
| [Web Search for AI](/docs/web-for-ai) | RAG, agents, and context-augmented generation |
| [Answer](/docs/answer-v2)             | Ready-to-ship AI answers with citations       |

## Why Staan

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**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.

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:::zap

**Up to 9× cheaper than alternatives.** Web Search starts at €1 / 1,000 requests. The first 1,000 are free.

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:::sparkles

**Source-first results.** Every result is linked to its origin — auditable, attributable, never a black box.

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## Authentication

All requests require a Bearer token:

```bash
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
```

Sign up at [staan.ai](https://staan.ai) to get your free API key and 1,000 requests/month.

## Base URL

```
https://api.staan.ai/v2
```