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Octen pricing and alternatives: cached web search API, POST /news-search

Octen'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 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: Free one of Octen's 6 plans
Call: POST /news-search one of Octen's 3 calls for this API
API: Cached web search API one of Octen's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 minute old. You get pages from Octen's index.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit once, enough for about 1,666 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /news-search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Octen: cached web search API alternatives

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

Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /news-searchGroundRoute, top-up, Managed, POST /v1/search, Search, news
$ per 1,000 searches$3.00$1.00
Completeness33%50%
Billingpay firstpay first
Pay$5any amount
Freshness1 minute5 minutes
Who can get itanyoneanyone with a payment method or credits on file

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. docs.octen.ai/api-reference/news-search.md
  2. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/news-search
  3. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search
  4. docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing
  5. docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits
  6. octen.ai/pricing
  7. octen.ai/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Date
  • Author
  • Text, not in the answer
  • 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
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Pulse Search · Broad Search · Web Search · Image Search · Video Search · Business Search · Place Search · Extract · Embedding · VL Embedding · Answer · Deep Research · Grounded Generation · Auto Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOcten Web Search searches the live web and returns ranked results with query-relevant highlights and optional full content, ready for a model to ground its answers on.
Data
Freshness1 minute
Keep data24 hours: a cache to improve your application's performance may not persist longer, no permanent storing, archiving or database of the output built as a substitute for its services
Use datayour internal business purposes or integration into your applications as its documentation permits, no competing search engine or AI model developed or trained on it, no resale, lease, sublicense or distribution of the services without its written consent, Octen may name you and show your logo as a customer
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough forabout 1,666 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second10
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_basis, time_range, start_time, end_time, language, highlight.enable, highlight.max_tokens, full_content.enable, full_content.max_tokens, subjects.enable, subjects.count, subjects.max_sub_news
MethodPOST
Path/news-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

original query, page title, URL, highlight, full content, author or website name, published date, last crawled date, favicon URL, cover image URL, cover image description, image URL, image description, subject name, subject summary, subject start date, subject latest article date, subject top article, subject sub-event articles, number of subject search queries, request ID, latency, warning, number of search queries, billable full content results

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