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title: "search.provider-offer@1 · OpenVibe.Services"
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# search.provider-offer@1 · OpenVibe.Services

HTML: [search.provider-offer@1 · OpenVibe.Services](https://openvibe.services/docs/contracts/search.provider-offer)

# SearchProviderOffer `search.provider-offer@1`

Generated at 2026-11-13 06:25:48 UTC from [`openvibe-contracts v0.419.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Contracts/tree/v0.419.0) and [`openvibe-sdk v0.161.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.SDK/tree/v0.161.0).

- Version: 1.0.0
- Owner: search
- Visibility: public
- Status: active
- Compatibility: backward
- Schema: [`https://openvibe.network/contracts/search/provider-offer.v1.json`](/docs/contracts/search.provider-offer.json)

search.provider-offer@1: one web search provider as the Search Fabric's ladder and Route see it (GET /api/v1/query/providers, capability search.fabric.query): what it covers, what it costs, whether it is usable now and how it has answered. Prices are the vendor's published ones as of checked\_at; nothing here is a secret.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Description | Constraints |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `provider` | string | yes |  | - `pattern ^[a-z][a-z0-9_]{1,39}$` |
| `name` | string |  |  | - `maxLength 80` |
| `scopes` | array of enum | yes |  | - `minItems 1`<br>- `items: one of "network", "mine", "web", "news", "images", "video", "products", "people", "places", "code"` |
| `price_usd_per_call` | number | yes |  | - `minimum 0` |
| `independent_index` | boolean |  | Searches its own crawl rather than reselling another engine's. |  |
| `available` | boolean | yes | Configured and not standing down (balance, key, rate limit, daily cap). |  |
| `reason` | string \| null |  |  | - `maxLength 160` |
| `daily_cap` | integer \| null |  |  | - `minimum 0` |
| `used_today` | integer \| null |  |  | - `minimum 0` |
| `latency_ms_p50` | integer \| null |  |  | - `minimum 0` |
| `answered_rate` | number \| null |  | Share of calls in the last day that returned at least one result. | - `minimum 0`<br>- `maximum 1` |
| `terms_url` | string \| null |  |  | - `maxLength 2048` |
| `checked_at` | string | yes |  | - `maxLength 40` |

## Examples

From the contract's own test fixtures: valid ones validate, rejected ones must fail.

 Valid: deepseek

~~~~
{
  "provider": "deepseek",
  "name": "DeepSeek Search",
  "scopes": [
    "web",
    "news"
  ],
  "price_usd_per_call": 0.00075,
  "independent_index": false,
  "available": true,
  "reason": null,
  "daily_cap": 1500,
  "used_today": 212,
  "latency_ms_p50": 1380,
  "answered_rate": 0.97,
  "terms_url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-28T11:00:00Z"
}
~~~~

Rejected: negative-price

~~~~
{
  "provider": "x",
  "scopes": [
    "web"
  ],
  "price_usd_per_call": -1,
  "available": true,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-28T11:00:00Z"
}
~~~~

## Validate

~~~~
const contracts = require('openvibe-contracts');
contracts.validate('search.provider-offer@1', value);   // { valid, errors: [{ path, message }] }
~~~~