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GroundRoute pricing and alternatives: cached web search API, POST /v1/search, Search, answer

GroundRoute's sitellms.txtBest cached web search API in 2026
50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 40 plans we rank by price is ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, at $0.384 per 1,000 searches.Octen, Parallel and Firecrawl are the best cached web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: BYOK one of GroundRoute's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search, Search, answer one of GroundRoute's 5 calls
API: Cached web search API GroundRoute's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 3 hours old. You get pages from GroundRoute's index.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. GroundRoute limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set mode to "answer" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send max_results, freshness, domains, exclude_domains, lang and country. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone who supplies their own engine API keys. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GroundRoute: cached web search API alternatives

The table starts with GroundRoute's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to GroundRoute's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

GroundRoute, top-up, Managed, POST /v1/search, Search, answerOcten, $33,999 monthly, Max, POST /news-searchFirecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, GET /v2/search/developer
$ per 1,000 searches$5.00$3.00$5.00
Completeness50%33%17%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay first
Payany amount$33,999$5
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for1,000 calls
Freshness3 hours1 minute1 day
Who can get itanyone with a payment method or credits on fileanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian

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. groundroute.ai
  2. groundroute.ai/docs/byok
  3. groundroute.ai/docs/caching
  4. groundroute.ai/docs/errors-and-limits
  5. groundroute.ai/docs/pricing
  6. groundroute.ai/docs/routing-and-policies
  7. groundroute.ai/docs/search-api
  8. groundroute.ai/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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search, web · Search, news · Search, academic · Search, page
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne API for every search engine your agent calls.
Data
Freshness3 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataSearch results originate from third-party Search Providers and are subject to their rights and terms, GroundRoute makes no claim of ownership over them and grants no rights beyond passing them through to you. You are responsible for how you use returned results. You agree not to use the Service to: violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, or any Search Provider's terms, send queries or fetch content for unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful purposes, circumvent rate limits, quotas, billing, or access controls, or share access to evade metering, attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other customers' data, or our infrastructure, scrape, resell, or redistribute the Service in a way that competes with GroundRoute as a routing layer without our written consent, introduce malware, or use the Service to facilitate denial-of-service, mass surveillance, or harassment
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second30
Concurrent30
The call
You sendquery, mode "answer", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: max_results, freshness, domains, exclude_domains, lang, country
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanBYOK
Who can get itanyone who supplies their own engine API keys
The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, tenant ID, URL, page title, snippet, page content, relevance score, source engine, published date, position, answer, citation URL, citation title, citation index, degraded, routing strategy, query class, chosen engine, routing reason, routing candidates, provider cost, latency, failover engine, missing engines, cache tier, poolable, poolability reason, freshness bucket, private cache key, pooled cache key, cached at, TTL, cost avoided, similarity, quality score, quality components, judge sampled, engine agreement, account ID, API key ID, timestamp, billable, searches counted, provider key source

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