MIAPI pitches cheaper grounded answers API

MIAPI is going after a real developer pain point: adding live web retrieval without paying premium search-API pricing. The product looks genuinely useful for indie builders and agent apps, but its benchmark and price-performance claims still need outside validation.

• –OpenAI-compatible chat completions make it easy to swap into existing apps with minimal code changes
• –The core pitch combines grounded answers, inline citations, raw search, news search, and image search in one API surface
• –Knowledge mode and search-only mode make it relevant for RAG pipelines, not just chat-style consumer use cases
• –MCP support gives it a practical distribution path into Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, and similar assistants