Artificial Analysis Search Index Measures Search API Performance, Cost, and Latency

What happened

Search is one of the most important tools for agents, and they search very differently from humans. By the end of the year, agents are expected to search the web far more than humans do. The Artificial Analysis Search Index measures the performance, cost and latency of Search APIs

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The story so far

Artificial Analysis introduced the Artificial Analysis Search Index, which measures the performance, cost and latency of search APIs. The company framed the index around AI agents’ use of web search, saying agents search differently from humans and predicting that their web searches would far outnumber human searches by the end of 2026.