---
title: "GET /explore/search"
method: GET
path: "/explore/search"
---

# GET /explore/search

`GET /explore/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://nano-gpt.com/api`
- URL: `https://nano-gpt.com/api/explore/search`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `x-api-key`

Search explore records. The distillation filter applies only when searching text models.

## Query parameters

- `type` string
- `q` string
- `distillation` 'allowed'

## Response `200`

Explore search results

- ExploreTextModelsResponse
  - `data` object[]: Text model records returned by explore.
    - `id` string: Text model identifier
    - `distillationPolicy` DistillationPolicy: API-only policy metadata indicating whether model or provider-route outputs may be used for model training, fine-tuning, distillation, or similar model-improvement workflows under NanoGPT's recorded model-license and provider-terms rules.
      - `status` 'allowed' | 'disallowed' | 'unknown': Whether distillation is allowed under the current recorded rule set.
      - `label` string: Human-readable policy summary.
      - `basis` 'deepseek-api-terms' | 'permissive-open-weights' | 'provider-output-use-terms' | 'provider-output-use-restriction' | 'closed-provider-restriction' | 'provider-terms-unknown': Rule basis used to derive the policy status.
      - `sourceUrl` string, uri: License or provider terms URL used as the policy source, when recorded.
      - `note` string: Short explanation and caveats for the policy signal.
  - `meta` object
    - `distillation` 'allowed' | 'all': Distillation filter state. `allowed` when the filter is active, otherwise `all` for text model responses.

## Other responses

- `400`: Unexpected error

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `cc8b07d75689`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/nano-gpt/apis/nanogpt-api/changes/explore/search/get.md)

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