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AI search answers API: what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity say, with citations

aeo.answer

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What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity answers for a prompt, with web search on, and every source it cites. The building block of an AI visibility audit.

live coverage

DataForSEO: ChatGPT ✓Claude ✓Gemini ✓Perplexity ✓

✓ marks a combination proven with a real provider call. Others are wired and unit-tested; their first live run verifies them.

Providers

ProviderStatus
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Billing

Unit: per_answer · unmatched results billed: no
Priced per answer, by assistant: perplexity $0.0175, chatgpt $0.07, gemini $0.08925, claude $0.12075 (inspect lists them under pricing.by_platform; set max_cost from the assistant you call). The exact quote is reserved before execution. If the provider's actual cost overruns the estimate, the run bills the overrun at the same per-call rate, capped by the hold.

The exact quote is returned by /v1/inspect before every call and held with headroom on execution. The quote is the price floor: if the provider's actual cost overruns it, the run bills the overrun at the same rate, never above the hold. The unused part of every hold is released.

Run it

curl https://api.jell.run/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JELL_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "capability": "aeo.answer",
    "input": { "prompt": "..." },
    "routing": {"provider": "auto"}
  }'

Input schema

{
  "properties": {
    "assistant": {
      "default": "chatgpt",
      "enum": [
        "chatgpt",
        "claude",
        "gemini",
        "perplexity"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "location": {
      "description": "Country for the assistant\u0027s web search: a two-letter code (US) or a country name; not applied on gemini, whose endpoint refuses it",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "model": {
      "description": "Optional exact model name; the assistant\u0027s current default otherwise",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "prompt": {
      "description": "The buyer question, up to 500 characters",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "prompt"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Normalized output fields

prompt · model · answer · sources · source_domains

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