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ContextFetch pricing and alternatives: cached web search API, POST /v1/search

ContextFetch's sitellms.txtBest cached web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 60 plans we rank by price is ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, at $0.384 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Starter one of ContextFetch's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/search one of ContextFetch's 2 calls for this API
API: Cached web search API one of ContextFetch's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get pages from ContextFetch's index. ContextFetch doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2.50 of credit once, enough for 5,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set type to "lite". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no signup and no card, one free key per network. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ContextFetch: cached web search API alternatives

The table starts with ContextFetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ContextFetch's.

ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/searchParallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, GET /v2/search/developerExa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instantBrave Search API, top-up from $5
$ per 1,000 searches$0.384$1.00$1.198$4.00$5.00
Completeness33%33%0%100%0%
Billingmonthlypay firstyearlypay as you gopay first
Pay$499any amount$7,190per call$5
Enough for1,300,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for500,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for1,000 calls
Freshnessstoredstored1 daystoredstored
Who can get itanyone with a signed-in accountanyone outside the jurisdictions export law barsanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardianAI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key neededanyone with a credit card

Every cached web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. contextfetch.dev/docs
  2. contextfetch.dev/llms.txt
  3. contextfetch.dev/openapi.json
  4. contextfetch.dev/pricing
  5. contextfetch.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Search, fast · Search, deep · Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast · Tavily-compatible search, fast · Tavily-compatible search, basic · Tavily-compatible search, advanced · Find similar · Answer · Research · Deep research · Contents · Reader · Crawl · Map
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur index only, the fastest answer
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use data"Do not use ContextFetch to: break the law, or infringe other people's rights, including copyright and privacy, get around the free-tier limit, for example by rotating IP addresses, attack, overload or probe the service, or try to reach non-public addresses through it, collect personal data about people at scale, or send spam, resell raw access to the API as a competing search API without our written agreement.", "Results are excerpts of third-party pages and belong to their owners. You are responsible for how you use them, including following those sites' terms."
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2.50
Enough for5,000 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second1.67
The call
You sendquery, type "lite". Optional: numResults, includeDomains, excludeDomains, startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, timeRange, topic, category, includeText, excludeText, userLocation, language, filterByLanguage, freshness, maxTokens, contents.text, contents.text.maxCharacters, contents.highlights, contents.highlights.query, contents.highlights.highlightsPerUrl, contents.prunedContext, contents.livecrawl, contents.maxAgeHours, outputSchema
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per network
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, document ID, URL, page title, relevance score, published date, text, highlights, highlight scores, pruned context, cost in dollars, search time, cache status, stage timings, token counts, recall sources, warnings, structured output, output grounding

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