Microsoft Web IQ overview

AI applications are only as good as the information they reason from. Microsoft Web IQ is a suite of AI-native APIs that gives applications access to fresh, real-world intelligence from across the web.

Web IQ returns ranked, citation-ready context designed for direct use in a large language model's context window. It builds on decades of search infrastructure and is designed for large language models, multi-step agents, and production AI workloads.

Note

Web IQ requires a paid Azure subscription. Azure credits don't work for Web IQ. To get started, deploy Web IQ with the Azure portal.

Why use Web IQ

Capability	Result	Benefit
Quality	Highest grounding satisfaction in the measured benchmark	More accurate and consistent grounded responses
Speed	164-ms P95 latency	Responsive multi-step agent workflows
Efficiency	Fewest tokens per query in the measured benchmark	Lower reasoning time and cost per call

Web IQ powers leading frontier AI assistants, including Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.

Content coverage

Web IQ provides citation-ready context from:

• Web pages
• News
• Images
• Video

Results are ranked and optimized for relevance, freshness, and authority. Web IQ combines the open web with licensed and specialized data sources to support high-stakes use cases.

Web IQ operates at global scale, with coverage across more than 100 languages and markets.

Integration options

Send a query by using:

• REST
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) with JSON-RPC 2.0
• An SDK

Queries can contain natural language, structured parameters, or both. Web IQ returns a structured JSON response with titles, URLs, snippets, timestamps, and provenance. The response is ready to add to a model's context window without additional post-processing.

Web IQ is model-agnostic and MCP-native, so applications aren't tied to a specific inference provider.