Grounding APIs check sentences. Tru8 maps evidence.
Who said it, what kind of source, who's echoing whom, what disputes it, what's missing — classified, receipted, signed. Below: the same claim, Tru8 vs four grounding APIs, responses verbatim.
| Capability | Tru8 | Web IQ | Google check-grounding | Perplexity | Parallel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieves evidence | 30+ sources | Bing index | caller supplies facts | ||
| Per-source classification | tier × type | undisclosed authority rank | none in Search API; Sonar has a web|attachment enum | ||
| Claim → element decomposition | 1–5 elements | partial — claim spans | output fields, not claim elements | ||
| Supports / challenges relationships | supports-only schema | ||||
| Dispute / unresolved states | computed internally, not exposed in the API | ||||
| Evidence gaps named | |||||
| Exclusion receipts | |||||
| Archived source URLs | |||||
| Signed manifest + public verify URL | "provenance" mentioned, schema gated | ||||
| Per-citation excerpts | unverified | citedChunks | snippets | Basis excerpts | |
| Latency | 15–90s (this capture: 40.4s) — different layer, not a faster horse | <165ms p95 (vendor claim) | <500ms documented (this capture: 2.8s) | seconds (this capture: 1.0s) | seconds–minutes (this capture: 4m 40s on core) |
Capabilities verified against official documentation and live API responses, captured 12 June 2026. Sources linked per panel below.
Tru8 vs four grounding APIs
One claim, captured live on the same day, responses verbatim. Each panel shows its wall-clock response time — the difference in what comes back, and how long it takes, is the comparison.
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If the others spent 90 seconds on this claim, wouldn't they return the same thing?
No — because time changes how much an API returns, not what it returns. Give a search API ninety seconds and you get more passages; the response contract — title, URL, snippet — is unchanged. There is no field for a dispute state to arrive in, however long you wait.
These are strong APIs doing exactly what they're built for: grounding answers at serving time, fast and at scale. The slow case is on this page too — Parallel's deeper processors run for minutes and return genuinely deeper research. The responses differ from Tru8's not by effort but by design: each schema answers the question its API was built to answer, and none of those questions is “what does the whole evidence landscape look like?”
That's the question Tru8 spends its 15–90 seconds on — every source classified by tier and type, mapped to what it supports or challenges, with the conflicts left visible. We organise; you decide.
Different layer, not a faster horse.
Grounding APIs answer in seconds because they return passages and a score. Tru8 takes 15–90 seconds because it returns the evidence landscape: every source classified by tier and type, mapped to what it supports or challenges, with dispute states, named gaps, exclusion receipts, archived URLs, and a signed manifest. If your product needs to show its working, the structure is the product.