AWS adds a web search API for AI agents at $7 for 1,000 queries

Amazon Web Services (AWS) opened its Web Search API to all users of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, its system for AI agents. A developer gets web results with one use of InvokeWebSearch. Before this, only a tool that an agent can use in AgentCore Gateway gave this web search, and the new API uses an index that Amazon operates.

How it works

Each result has a text extract and, when available, the page title, the URL and the time of publication. A developer can limit the results by domain and by time, for example to check a claim against trusted domains. The API works with the AWS software kits or the command line.

The numbers

• The price is $7 for 1,000 queries, the same as through the gateway.
• There are no gateway charges.
• Six regions have the API: two in the US East, one in the US West, Sydney, Tokyo and Ireland.

What is not known

AWS gave no test results for the quality of the results. It also gave no data on the freshness or the dimensions of its index.

Insight: Web search becomes a paid part of the agent platform

In October 2026, Cloudflare added web search in its AI Gateway, with three providers, among them Exa and Linkup, at the price of the provider. AWS gives results from its index. This reads as a race to make web search a standard part of each agent platform. Cloudflare uses other indexes, and AWS uses its index. Look for the first test data on quality.