Cached web search API pricing: plans compared

Name: Cached web search API plans
Creator: Datacircle
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Cached web search APIs side by side: the fields each returns, what 1,000 searches cost and how fresh their results are.


API	Score						Price			Not found	Pages found			Time per web search						The web search call		Charges			In their words	Data		Plan				Rate limit	Speed	The call		About the plan		Sources
API plan	Overall score	Price score	Data score	Cost to get started score	Bundle score	Performance score	$ per 1,000 searches	Per	Billing	$ per 1,000	Right page	Another page of the site	Not found	Median	10th percentile	90th percentile	Fastest	Slowest	Baseline	Call	Charged per search	Most per search	Extra fields	Also pays for	Their pitch	Keep data	Use data	Pay	You get	Enough for	Expires	Per second	Median	You send	Path	Plan	Who can get it	Read from
Cached web search · 2 plans
Exa, top-up from $5, Developer (pay as you go), POST /search, Search	82.4	63	95	93	83	100	$7.00	call	pay first	$7.00	19 of 20	1 of 20	0 of 20	0.93 s	0.74 s	1.51 s	0.67 s	3.05 s	0.27 s	POST api.exa.ai/search	$0.007, the right page found or not	100	AI summary: +$10.00	from the same budget: Search (every other type and category) · Contents · Answer · Monitors · Agent	Perform a search with an Exa prompt-engineered query and retrieve a list of relevant results. Optionally get contents.	self-serve: nothing copied or stored past a browser's temporary display cache, unless its terms or Exa in writing allow more, Enterprise, under its Master Subscription Agreement: no limit, the output is yours	self-serve: as its documentation allows, the output for your own internal business purposes, nothing resold or sublicensed, no competing product, Enterprise: also through your own products to your end users, no competing product, no benchmarks shared	$5	$5	about 714 calls		10	0.93 s	query. Optional: type, category, numResults, includeDomains, userLocation, userIdentifier, contents (text, highlights, summary, extras, livecrawlTimeout, maxAgeHours, snapshotAsOf, subpages, subpageTarget), additionalQueries, outputSchema, objective, systemPrompt, moderation, compliance	/search	Developer (pay as you go)	anyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list

Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)	N/A	88	N/A	93	89	N/A	$1.00	call	pay first	$1.00												20		from the same budget: Search API · Image Search API · Extract API · Task API · Task Group API · Responses API · Monitor API · FindAll API	High-quality search with sub-second latency. Recommended default for most agents.	(i) Customer Output generated from one query shall be primarily for the use of one End Customer only, and shall not be copied, cached, stored, or made available to other End Customers or other third parties, (ii) Customer shall not copy, cache, or store any significant portion of any Customer Output to create the AI and Data Selling Services (as defined in Section 2(c) below)	Parallel hereby grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license [...] to access and use the Services (purchased and paid for by the Customer) solely by Authorized Users, in accordance with the Documentation. The foregoing license includes the right for Customer to use the Parallel API to integrate the Services into the Customer Applications and to make Customer Applications available to End Customers. [...] Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (i) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to or attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas or algorithms of the Services or any software, systems, AI/ML models, Documentation, or data related to the Services (“Software”) (provided that reverse engineering is prohibited only to the extent such prohibition is not contrary to applicable law) or Customer Outputs (except as expressly permitted under Section 2(b) above), (ii) copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or Software, in whole or in part, (iii) use or access the Services or Software for timesharing or service bureau purposes or for any purpose other than for Customer’s business purposes as set forth in this Agreement, (iv) rent, lease, lend, sell, resell, license, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available the Services, Software, or Customer Outputs (except as expressly permitted under Section 2(b) above), (v) remove any product identification, proprietary, copyright or other notices from the Services or Software, except as expressly and specifically authorized by Parallel under a specific Online Order on a case by case basis, (vi) use the Services or any Customer Output to (A) create synthetic training data to develop or train a language model or any other machine learning model, or (B) create databases, data brokerage, data selling/reselling businesses, or related products or services, whether competitive with the Services or not (all of the foregoing collectively, the “AI and Data Selling Services”), or (C) otherwise for any competitive purposes, (vii) use or permit the use of any tools in order to probe, scan or attempt to penetrate the Services, or engage in model extraction or stealing attacks, (viii) use any method (whether through use of manual or automated means) to harvest, scrape, or extract data from the Services, other than as permitted through the Parallel APIs, (ix) intentionally or knowingly use or otherwise cause the Services to generate or develop infringing or illegal content, (x) use the Services, Software, or Customer Output in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable laws or regulations (including but not limited to any privacy laws, and laws or regulations concerning intellectual property, consumer and child protection, obscenity or defamation), (xi) intentionally or knowingly diverge requests of Authorized Users away from the Services (such as by making available Customer Outputs from previous queries for future uses, or incorporating Customer Outputs into an AI and Data Selling Services), or (xii) permit any Authorized User or third party to do any of the foregoing. [...] Customer shall not use the Services and/or the Customer Outputs to make automated decisions without human oversight that have a significant adverse impact on individual rights in high-risk areas such as employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance or social benefits. [...] Customer shall not, directly or indirectly, export, re-export, or release the Services or the underlying software or technology to, or make the Services or the underlying software or technology accessible from, any jurisdiction or country to which export, re-export, or release is prohibited by law, rule, or regulation.					10		search_queries, mode "fast". Optional: objective, max_chars_total, session_id, client_model, advanced_settings	/v1/search	Pay as you go	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars

Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search
Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search, deep
Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search, deep-lite
Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search, deep-reasoning
Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search, instant
Exa, free, World AgentKit free trial, POST /search, Search, lite
Parallel, free, $5 in free credits per month, POST /v1/search, Search (advanced)
Parallel, free, $5 in free credits per month, POST /v1/search, Search (basic)
Parallel, free, $5 in free credits per month, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)
Parallel, free, $5 in free credits per month, POST /v1/search, Search (turbo)

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Checked 2026-10-27

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We add each plan's price, data, cost to get started, bundle and performance scores at their weights and scale the total to 100. Data and performance come from our benchmark, so until we benchmark the provider they are N/A, and so is the plan's overall score. A plan whose data score is 0 has an overall score of 0, whatever its other scores. Click or tap any score to see how we scored it. Move a weight to rank the plans by the new scores.

Price40

Price › $ per 1,000 searches
Not found › $ per 1,000

Data40

Pages found

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.

Cost to get started10

About the plan › Who can get it
Price › Billing
Plan › Pay
Price › $ per 1,000 searches

On a pay as you go plan, the price of one result. On a tier that starts after a set number of monthly calls, the cost of those first calls.

Bundle10

Charges › Also pays for

Performance10

Time per web search › Median

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.