# 4 AI Search API alternatives in 2026

Last updated: November 7, 2026.

Other providers sell web search APIs like AI Search API's. DataBlue costs $1.45 per 1,000 searches, Social Fetch $1.50 and Scrapa $1.52.

## Web search API alternatives

On our AI Search API plan pages, we compare each AI Search API plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/free#29-monthly): $1.45 per 1,000 searches
- [Social Fetch, $225 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/social-fetch/free#225-monthly): $1.50 per 1,000 searches
- [Scrapa, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/free#19-monthly): $1.52 per 1,000 searches
- [Webcrawl, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webcrawl/free#250-monthly): $1.54 per 1,000 searches

Compare every web search API plan: [Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-api-pricing)