Platforms, Priority & Country

When you submit a task, platform picks which AI platform to ask, priority picks the queue tier and price, country picks the network exit for Global platforms, and thinking asks for the platform’s thinking mode. This page covers each in turn.

Supported platforms

Use the platform ID from the table below as the platform parameter (case-insensitive).

Platform ID	Platform	Region
chatgpt	ChatGPT	Global
gemini	Gemini	Global
claude	Claude	Global
perplexity	Perplexity	Global
copilot	Copilot	Global
grok	Grok	Global
google-ai-mode	Google AI Mode	Global
google-ai-overview	Google AI Overview	Global
doubao	Doubao	China
deepseek	DeepSeek	China
kimi	Kimi	China
yuanbao	Tencent Yuanbao	China
qianwen	Qwen	China
wenxin	ERNIE Bot	China
zhipu	Zhipu ChatGLM	China
xunfei	iFlytek Spark	China
metaso	Metaso	China
xiaohongshu	Xiaohongshu Diandian	China

In API responses, region is overseas for Global platforms and domestic for China platforms.

The live API response is the source of truth

Platforms are added and retired over time, so this table is only a snapshot at the time of writing. In code, call List Platforms to get the platforms available right now — don’t hardcode the list. Platforms without a configured price, or that have been retired, don’t appear in the response; platforms under maintenance do appear, with platform_status set to maintenance. Submitting to either kind returns 1029.

Platform status

Each item returned by List Platforms includes platform_status and stats for the last 24 hours:

platform_status	Shown in the console as	Meaning	Can you submit?
normal	Operational	Not flagged as degraded or under maintenance, and the most recent task to finish in the last 24 hours didn’t fail	Yes
degraded	Degraded	Recent failures (the latest failure is no earlier than the latest success), or manually flagged as degraded; tasks may be slower or fail occasionally	Yes; failed tasks are free
maintenance	Maintenance	Not accepting tasks	No — submissions return 1029 right away and no task is created

How to read the stats fields:

• sample_count: the number of tasks on this platform that reached a final status in the last 24 hours, across all callers (excluding non-platform causes such as invalid API keys, rejected parameters, and cancellations).
• has_stats: true once the sample count reaches the statistical threshold. Only then are success_rate (0–1) and p50_duration_seconds meaningful. When it’s false, both are 0 — don’t display that as a “0% success rate”.
• normal with a sample_count of 0 means nobody has called this platform in the last 24 hours. It only tells you that no failures were observed, not that the platform has been verified to work. The console shows this case as “No samples”.
• Stats are recomputed every few minutes; stats_updated_at is when they were last computed. They don’t distinguish tasks with and without thinking mode.

Priority: P1 vs. P2

priority has two tiers with different prices (see Billing & Credits):

	P1 Priority (priority: 1)	P2 Standard (priority: 2, default)
Queue order	Dequeued before P2	Picked up after P1
Capacity	Can use all of it	Uses at most half, leaving the rest for P1
When platform accounts are temporarily unavailable	Doesn’t wait long; may end quickly as a failure (free)	Stays in the queue until they recover, remaining pending
Retries	Retried within the same run	A retryable failure goes back to the queue and runs once more (running → pending)
Best for	Time-sensitive work: a user is waiting, live dashboards	Work that isn’t time-sensitive: daily batch monitoring, offline analysis
Price	Higher	Lower

• Omitting priority or passing 0 runs and bills the task as P2; any value other than 1 or 2 returns 1001.
• The console Playground always runs and bills as P1.
• The tier a task actually ran on is raw_result.priority in the result — use it for reconciliation.
• Neither tier guarantees a queue time. P1 just goes first; when the platform as a whole is busy, it still has to wait.

How to choose: use P2 for scheduled batch monitoring — it’s cheaper, and a slightly later result doesn’t matter. Use P1 when someone is waiting on the result in a UI, or when a downstream step is blocked on it.

Exit country: country

country is an optional two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, such as US, JP, DE; case-insensitive).

• Global platforms: sets which country’s network exit is used to reach the platform. The AI’s answer — language, recommended brands, cited sources — can vary by region. If omitted, the server decides; currently that’s a US exit. Global platforms don’t support a mainland China exit — passing CN also uses the US exit.
• China platforms: always accessed from mainland China; country doesn’t change the exit.
• A dedicated exit isn’t guaranteed for every country; if none is configured for the requested country, the default exit is used. The country in the response is the value you requested (uppercased), not a verified actual exit.
• Specifying a country costs nothing extra.

In most cases you don’t need country. Set it only when you’re researching something like “what answer does a user in Germany get from ChatGPT?”.

Thinking mode: thinking

thinking is an optional boolean that defaults to false (off), in which case the platform answers in its fast mode. Pass true to request the platform’s thinking mode — the default strength of modes like ChatGPT’s thinking or DeepSeek’s DeepThink on the platform’s website, not higher tiers such as deep research.

• It’s a request, not a guarantee. Platforms without a thinking switch run with thinking off even if you pass true — no error, and billing is unchanged. Whether thinking was actually on is raw_result.thinking in the result: true means it was on; the field is absent when it was off, when the platform has no switch, or when the task failed. The top-level thinking on the task object only echoes what you requested.
• Noticeably slower. The platform reasons before answering, so tasks usually take noticeably longer than with thinking off, possibly over two minutes. With wait_seconds, the call is also more likely to return before the task finishes, so keep polling.
• No extra cost. Tasks are charged the same price for the same platform and tier (P1 / P2) — see Billing & Credits.
• It must be a JSON boolean: passing the string "true" returns 1001.

Per-platform support (October 2026):

Platform	Off (default)	On ("thinking": true)
ChatGPT	Thinking off	Thinking on
DeepSeek	DeepThink off, with web search	DeepThink on, with web search
Doubao	Fast	Expert
Kimi	“Standard” thinking strength	“Advanced” thinking strength
Tencent Yuanbao	Quick answer	Expert mode (website default)
Qwen	Fast	Thinking & research
Zhipu ChatGLM	Fast	Deep
Metaso	Fastest	Quick thinking (website default)
iFlytek Spark	Fast	Reasoning

Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview, ERNIE Bot, and Xiaohongshu Diandian have no thinking switch; passing true still runs them with thinking off.

Rely on raw_result.thinking in the result

This table reflects October 2026 and can change whenever a platform updates, and List Platforms doesn’t report whether a platform supports thinking. In code, read raw_result.thinking on each task instead of hardcoding this table. Tencent Yuanbao and Metaso use their thinking modes by default on their websites, and Tencent Yuanbao’s two modes use different models.

A task that requested thinking and actually ran with it looks like this (excerpt):

{
  "thinking": true,
  "task_id": "task_…",
  "platform": "chatgpt",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "…": "…",
  "raw_result": {
    "…": "…",
    "priority": 2,
    "thinking": true
  }
}

With thinking off, thinking doesn’t appear in raw_result. See Working with Results for how to read thinking steps.

How results differ between platforms

Platforms return content of varying richness: some expose their thinking and search steps, some embed video or product cards in the answer, and some don’t distinguish whether a source was cited in the answer text. See Working with Results for the specifics and how to parse them.

Related pages

List PlatformsRequest parameters, response fields, and examples.

Billing & CreditsPrices for both tiers, and how credits are reserved and charged.