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Tako pricing and alternatives: cached web search API

Tako'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 Tako's 4 plans
Call: POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant one of Tako's 3 calls for this API
API: Cached web search API one of Tako's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get pages from Tako's index. Tako doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,000 requests.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v3/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Tako: cached web search API alternatives

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

Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, instantContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/searchParallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (basic)Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, proGroundRoute, top-up, Managed, POST /v1/search, Search, academic
$ per 1,000 searches$7.00$0.50$5.00$5.00$7.00
Completeness33%50%33%17%50%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay as you gopay first
Payany amount$10any amountmonthlyany amount
Enough foras many as you pay for20,000 callsas many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstored14 days
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyoneanyone outside the jurisdictions export law barsanyone 18 or over with a payment method addedanyone 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.tako.com/api-reference/search-v3
  2. docs.tako.com/documentation/additional-resources/credits-and-billing
  3. docs.tako.com/documentation/integrating-tako/search/for-coding-agent
  4. tako.com/openapi.json
  5. tako.com/pricing
  6. tako.com/tos
  7. tako.com/use-cases/cited-answers-api

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
Most per search20
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time search returning webpages, highlights, structured data and visualizations.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataYou may not [...] (iii) cache, store, or retain Content for the purpose of responding to a query or request other than the original query or request for which the Content was provided
Use dataYou shall not: (a) sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time-share, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service, (b) use it unlawfully or in violation of data, privacy, or export laws, (c) modify, adapt, hack, reverse engineer, or attempt to discover any source code, (d) use any robots, scraping, or similar data-gathering methods, or (e) violate any local, state, national, or international law. [...] You may not, directly or indirectly, and may not permit any third party to: (i) scrape, download, extract, aggregate, or otherwise use Content to create, compile, maintain, enrich, or supplement any database, dataset, data feed, knowledge graph, search index, or similar collection, (ii) use Content to develop, offer, or improve any product or service that substitutes for or competes with the Service or with the data products or services of Tako's third-party suppliers, (iii) cache, store, or retain Content for the purpose of responding to a query or request other than the original query or request for which the Content was provided, (iv) reverse engineer, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive, reconstruct, or identify any underlying data source, database, dataset, methodology, schema, structure, or system from the Content, or (v) use Content to train, fine-tune, distill, develop, or improve any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model or system. You must clearly attribute the underlying data sources identified by Tako whenever displaying, distributing, or otherwise using Content, including in any outputs derived from Content, and must preserve any source attribution and proprietary notices provided with such Content.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,000 requests
Enough for2,000 calls
Speed
Median0.30 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: effort "instant", sources, sources.data.count, sources.data.include_contents, sources.data.node_ids, sources.data.strict, sources.web.count, sources.web.include_contents, sources.web.category, sources.web.include_domains, sources.web.exclude_domains, sources.web.snippet_max_chars, sources.web.highlights, sources.web.article_content_max_chars, sources.web.published_after, sources.web.published_before, country_code, locale, timezone, output_settings, include_related
MethodPOST
Path/api/v3/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, page title, URL, snippet, source name, published date, card ID, card title, card description, card semantic description, card URL, card image URL, card embed URL, card sources, card methodologies, card type, relevance, relevance score, data freshness, metric definitions, card nodes, related queries, total cost, compute cost, data cost

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