From now on, developers can embed
Wolfram Alpha search results in their applications and websites. Academic search engine
announced that it opens the
API for everyone. True, access to information will not be free: the cheapest
tariff plan for 1000 requests costs $ 60 plus $ 0.08 for each additional request. Monthly tariffs start at $ 2,000 for 25,000 requests, and the most expensive tariff plan costs $ 220,000 per month for 10 million requests.
The scope of API is huge: creating reference and expert systems on your website, improving chat bots, adding journalistic articles with interactive information, creating educational and scientific software with downloading relevant data and even building artificial intelligence systems. API documentation is
here .
Despite such pricing, the first major client to use the Wolfram Alpha API is already known. It
will be a search site Bing.
In addition to this, the owners of Wolfram Alpha reported that they are conducting testing programs for the iPhone, which will also work through the API and will become the main platform for testing software interfaces.