# AnyCrawler, free: Image search API

> Use Image Search to find visual candidates from a text query and follow available links back to their source pages.

AnyCrawler's image search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Thumbnail, Page, Site.
We rank 356 plans by price. [SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt), [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) and [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free
- [Best image search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anycrawler.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/images/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AnyCrawler (https://anycrawler.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Image: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓
- Page: ✓
- Site: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Render · Web Search API · News Search API · Video Search API · Scholar Search API · Screenshot API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use Image Search to find visual candidates from a text query and follow available links back to their source pages.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may use AnyCrawler only in compliance with applicable law, these terms, and any separate written agreement that governs your account. You may not use the service to break the law, interfere with the security or availability of the service, evade access restrictions unlawfully, violate privacy or publicity rights, infringe intellectual property rights, distribute malware, perform credential abuse, run deceptive activity, or process data in ways that your own legal basis does not permit.", "Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use AnyCrawler to: access or attempt to access data without authorization, steal, replay, or misuse login credentials, cookies, tokens, or session data, bypass paywalls or access controls, solve or route around CAPTCHAs or similar anti-abuse controls through AnyCrawler, impersonate users, devices, or networks in a deceptive manner, or infringe or help others infringe website terms, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or similar rights.", "Subject to these terms and your plan, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the service for your internal business purposes or other lawful uses of the product."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 250 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: channel "images", query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, page, results_per_page
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, status code, credits used, search parameters, image result title, image result image URL, image result thumbnail URL, image result source, image result link, knowledge graph, answer box, people also ask, related searches

## AnyCrawler's plans (5)

- [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/5-monthly/llms.txt): $6.667 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/80-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [AnyCrawler, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 80% complete

## AnyCrawler's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler's APIs (5)

- [AnyCrawler: image search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-fetch-full/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render/llms.txt)
- [AnyCrawler: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/free-post-v1-crawl-page-render-full/llms.txt)

## AnyCrawler: image search API alternatives

- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $1.292 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [Crawlora, $9 monthly, Starter, GET /bing/images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/crawlora/9-monthly-starter-get-bing-images/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): $1.359 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $490 yearly, Starter, GET /v1/google/images/search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapebadger/490-yearly-starter-get-v1-google-images-search/llms.txt): $1.361 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

- https://anycrawler.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/crawler/search/images/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://anycrawler.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing