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AI Usage > Web search requests

Written by Tom Williams

Dataset: AI Usage

Entity: AI Usage Measurement

Field ID: web_search_requests

Type: Number

Description: The number of web searches performed by the AI assistant.

Not available yet. GitHub Copilot does not publish this measurement, so it is empty on every record you can query today. It is populated by Anthropic Claude, which is coming soon.

Source: App

Transformation logic: N/A

App Mapping

GitHub Copilot

N/A

Anthropic Claude (coming soon)

server_tool_use.web_search_requests

Cursor (coming soon)

N/A

OpenAI Platform (coming soon)

N/A

OpenAI Codex (coming soon)

N/A

Reporting Use Cases

The Web search requests field counts server-side tool calls the assistant made to search the web.

  • Billable tool use: Web searches are metered separately from tokens by the providers that offer them, so they are worth tracking alongside consumption.

  • Anthropic only: No other provider publishes a tool use count today.

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