The Tako alternative
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typesearch vs Tako
Tako’s web results, at a fifth of the price, through the Tako SDK you already use — plus verification and structure on every result.
Same job, 5× cheaper
Search
$1.40
Tako: $7−80%
Deep search
$2.40
Tako: $12−80%
Contents · per 1k pages
$0.20
Tako: $1−80%
What stays the same
Your SDK, your parameters, your response parsing. Here is how each Tako parameter maps.
| Tako parameter | Status | On typesearch |
|---|---|---|
| query | Same | Same. |
| effort | Mapped | instant → Ultra · fast → Fast · deep → Deep |
| sources.web.count | Same | Same, 1–20. |
| sources.web.category | Mapped | sports, finance and news map to our sections. |
| include_domains, exclude_domains | Same | Same. |
| published_after, published_before | Same | Same. |
| highlights | Same | Verbatim excerpts from verified results. |
| include_contents | Limited | Content returns null: excerpts only. |
| Data cards | Not supported | Returned empty, with a warning header. |
What you gain
- A calibrated relevance probability on every result
- Top results read and verified before they’re ranked
- Typed questions answered per result, in the same call
- Tone, same-story dedupe and who-published-first
- Up to five queries per request
- Hard cost caps per request
When Tako is still the better fit
We’d rather you stay than churn in a month. Keep Tako for these:
- Your product is built on Tako’s licensed data cards and charts.
- You need synthesized, cited answers from the API itself.
- You need full page contents behind every result.
Migration
The whole migration
One compatibility layer per provider: same parameters, same response shape, same errors. Point your official SDK at us and ship.
from tako import Configuration, SearchRequestfrom tako.lib import Tako-config = Configuration()+config = Configuration(host="https://api.typesearch.ai/compat/tako/api")-config.api_key["apiKey"] = TAKO_API_KEY+config.api_key["apiKey"] = TYPESEARCH_API_KEYr = Tako(config).search(SearchRequest.from_dict({"query": "Brazil central bank rate decision","sources": {"web": {"count": 10}},}))
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