Web IQ
Connect AI agents to fresh, trustworthy web information - enabling better answers, accurate decisions, and useful actions.
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Fuel your AI agents with fresh, trusted intelligence from across the web
Keep up with a constantly changing world
Give agents fresh web information beyond training data, so answers reflect recent events and changing conditions.
Get better answers, with less token waste
Keep workflows moving with fast retrieval and focused context - optimizing answer quality, retrieval latency, and token efficiency.
Solve harder problems with web-scale knowledge
Tap into Bing's global web index to give agents the breadth of knowledge they need to tackle complex questions across topics and sources.
Build with enterprise-ready web intelligence
Access web intelligence with controls that respect publisher rights and permissions, helping reduce risk as you scale AI agents.
Built for enterprise trust and scale
Responsible web access
Ground AI with confidence using web intelligence backed by granular content controls that respect publisher preferences and help reduce compliance risks.
Ready for production
Bring web intelligence into production AI applications with infrastructure designed to support enterprise-scale workloads.
Efficiency without excess
Highest quality answers with the fewest tokens.
Web IQ operates on a new Pareto curve of efficiency. By prioritizing the most relevant passages and minimizing unnecessary context, it cuts token usage per query – which reduces reasoning time and tokens – and lowers the total cost of delivering high-quality responses. These gains compound across high-volume workloads, making AI systems more accurate and cost-effective in production.
Quality without compromise
Highest grounding satisfaction.
Delivering more complete, structured context – drawing from web, news, images, video – Web IQ improves the accuracy and consistency of AI-generated responses. This leads to higher grounding satisfaction and greater user trust, especially in domains where source quality, freshness, and attribution directly impact decision-making.
Speed without trade-offs
Nearly 2.5x faster than today’s best alternative.
Fast grounding enables AI systems to operate responsively across multi-step agent chains and dynamic queries. By reducing latency at each step, Web IQ keeps workflows moving and compounds performance across complex interactions.
Simple, consumption-based pricing
The lowest search API price doesn't always mean the lowest cost per answer. What matters is delivering high-quality results efficiently.
Web IQ optimizes for both cost and quality, retrieving relevant, focused context without processing entire webpages. That means fewer tokens, better answers, and lower total cost of ownership.
| Browse | $1 / 1k calls |
|---|---|
| Web | $7 / 1k calls |
| News | $7 / 1k calls |
| Images | $7 / 1k calls |
| Video | $7 / 1k calls |
Frequently asked questions
Microsoft Web IQ is a suite of AI-native web search and grounding APIs that gives LLMs, AI agents and applications access to current, relevant web information. This enables more accurate, up-to-date AI answers with sources users can verify. Web IQ powers leading frontier AI assistants, including Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.
Web grounding gives AI access to the latest web information, so it can answer using current facts beyond its training data, with cited sources users can check. It helps most with frequently changing information, like market developments, competitor activity, news, regulatory updates, and more.
Most web search APIs force a tradeoff — fast or accurate, cost-efficient or complete. Web IQ delivers across the board: industry-leading quality, fastest performance, and fewest tokens per query. It's the same platform that AI assistants like Copilot and ChatGPT rely on every day — proven at a global scale, and ready for any AI agent or app to build on.
Web IQ is differentiated by how it accesses content. It takes a responsible approach to web access, bringing together the open web, licensed content, and structured data with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and protections built in.
Web IQ also works with the AI stack you already use. Developers can use their preferred AI model and connect through Model Context Protocol (MCP), without being tied to a single model or platform.
Web IQ powers AI agents and applications that need fresh, external information from the public web. Internal teams can use it for competitive intelligence, monitoring, regulatory research, sales intelligence, and content optimization; customer-facing experiences can use it for research, discovery, recommendations, and specialized agents. It’s best suited for scenarios where information changes frequently, spans many external sources, and needs to be grounded in current, attributable web content.
Yes, Web IQ supports a range of enterprise and regulated use cases. Customers with specialized compliance, governance, or industry requirements can engage with our team to determine the appropriate solution offering.
In Microsoft benchmark tests, Web IQ achieved the highest grounding satisfaction among the services tested, helping agents deliver better-supported answers for more informed decisions. Its approximately 2.5× faster retrieval processing (164 ms p95 latency) helps reduce wait times and keep multi-step agent workflows responsive. It also used 50% fewer tokens at comparable answer quality, which can lower model-processing costs—particularly at scale.
Web IQ continually retrieves fresh information across web pages, news, and image and video results to help your AI agent or application answer questions beyond its model's training data. Availability and freshness vary by API, source, and use case. See coverage and content-use guidance for supported capabilities and media-use restrictions.
Web IQ is designed to honor supported publisher controls, including applicable robots.txt directives and other publisher signals recognized by Microsoft.
Web IQ draws from the global web to support AI agents and applications serving different regions and audiences. Language and market coverage can vary, so review supported coverage against the questions your users need to answer.
Yes. Web IQ lets you add web information to the AI model and agent workflow you choose. REST APIs and MCP give you flexibility in how you connect it; check the integration documentation for supported configurations.
Microsoft IQ brings together four integrated layers that power enterprise intelligence across Microsoft. Web IQ provides information from the public web. Work IQ focuses on work signals, Fabric IQ on business data, and Foundry IQ on organizational knowledge. These products address different information needs for AI agents and applications and are most powerful when used together.
Your AI agent or application calls Web IQ for web evidence, then passes selected results to its model to generate a response. You control how the information is selected, used, and cited. Follow the QuickStart to connect your first workflow or get started with our playground here.
Yes. Web IQ supports certain customer-licensed content, including unstructured, long-form content available through URLs. Contact Web IQ support to review your content source and licensing arrangement.
Pricing depends on the APIs enabled for your account, usage, and commercial terms. Review your offer documentation or contact your Microsoft account team for applicable pricing; use the cost-planning guide to estimate retrieval and model-input costs for your workflow.
Web IQ can be used by enterprise companies, small businesses, and individual users. Request access today here. Access is subject to your intended use, Azure account history, and other conditions outlined in our terms of use.