# Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30

Source: [Vercel](https://vercel.com/changelog/tako-search-is-free-on-ai-gateway-through-september-30th)  
Feed7 permalink: https://feed7.dev/p/tako-search-is-free-on-ai-gateway-through-september-30th-16drc8y  
Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z  
Trust: Official Source (official_source)

## Why Included

Tako Search gives any AI Gateway model current web and curated data through one AI SDK tool, without a separate account or key. The free window ends September 30.

## Source Summary

Tako Search adds **live web and curated data** to models on Vercel AI Gateway, with domain and publication-date filters, citations, and visualizations. It is **free through September 30**; standard rates follow.

## Practical Implication

Add **gateway.tools.takoSearch()** to a generateText or streamText request. Because the integration works across Gateway models, builders can switch the underlying model without rebuilding search plumbing or managing a separate Tako credential.

## Agent-Ready Context

Tako Search adds **live web and curated data** to models on Vercel AI Gateway, with domain and publication-date filters, citations, and visualizations. It is **free through September 30**; standard rates follow.

Add **gateway.tools.takoSearch()** to a generateText or streamText request. Because the integration works across Gateway models, builders can switch the underlying model without rebuilding search plumbing or managing a separate Tako credential.

The announcement does not specify standard pricing, retrieval quality, source coverage, or citation reliability. Treat the free period as a chance to test those properties against your own research tasks.

## Connected Context

Feed7 judgment across 757 accumulated Signals:

Tako gives the Gateway a second keyless, model-independent search path alongside Exa, now adding curated data, visualizations, and explicit domain/date controls. This strengthens the case for treating retrieval as swappable gateway plumbing, while leaving the same unresolved evaluation work around quality, coverage, citations, latency, and post-promotion cost.

- [Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve](https://feed7.dev/p/exa-web-search-free-through-august-31-on-ai-gateway-and-eve-14bmt41) — Tako provides an alternative implementation of the same keyless, cross-model search pattern, with different filtering and presentation features; both promotions make comparative testing timely without establishing a durable cost advantage.
- [superlinked/sie](https://feed7.dev/p/sie-055bka3) — Both decouple agents from a single retrieval backend, but Tako does so as a managed Gateway tool while SIE places serving and retrieval operations in a self-hosted stack.
- [The end of credential sprawl for agents](https://feed7.dev/p/the-end-of-credential-sprawl-for-agents-0iwzpki) — Tako’s lack of a separate credential reinforces Vercel’s broader effort to centralize agent access, though it removes one integration secret rather than supplying Connect’s per-user identity, revocation, and audit controls.

## Context Map

- Layer: infra
- Domains: research, data
- Topics: gateways, retrieval, tool-use

## Uncertainty

- The announcement does not specify standard pricing, retrieval quality, source coverage, or citation reliability. Treat the free period as a chance to test those properties against your own research tasks.

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