# No MultiCountRequest API Object in Java

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-multicountrequest-api-object-in-java/208299>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-multicountrequest-api-object-in-java/208299 "2019-11-18T11:24:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-multicountrequest-api-object-in-java/208299/2 "2019-11-21T11:35:08Z")

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Nevermind - I can see from this: [Search API vs Count API performance?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-api-vs-count-api-performance/126544) that actually `_count` is just a `_search` under the hood.

I'll stick with `MultiSearchRequest` and `"size": 0` for now.

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