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API League pricing: image search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run API League through our image search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 361 plans for image search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.80 per 1,000 searches or less.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.SerpScraper.dev, SerpKite and Litescrape are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API League's 4 plans
Call: GET /search-images API League's only call for this API
API: Image search API one of API League's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 tokens a day, enough for 25 calls. Calls stop once your units run out. Unused units expire at midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets.
  • One call. You send query to GET /search-images. You can also send number. The call returns the images that match.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API League: image search API alternatives

API League alternatives: every image search API provider ranked

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

API League, $199 monthlyScrapeBadger, $36,000 yearly, Max, GET /v1/yahoo/imagesScrapingdog, $160,000 yearly, Ultra Pro, GET /google_imagesPrismCrawl, $10 pack, Lite, POST /v1/microsoft/images/searchScrappa, $100 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$0.265$0.263$0.267$0.27$0.27
Completeness0%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlyyearlyyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$199$36,000$160,000$10$100
Enough for25,000 calls a dayabout 11,428,571 calls a month50,000,000 calls a month37,038 calls370,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. apileague.com
  2. apileague.com/apis/search-images-api/
  3. apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting
  4. apileague.com/pricing
  5. apileague.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Image, not in the answer
  • Size, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail, not in the answer
  • Page, not in the answer
  • Site, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 54 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch through hundreds of thousands of royalty free images to match any topic you want.
Data
Keep datano copy or storage of what it provides, with prior written permission, a cache of user-requested data for a maximum of 1 hour
Use dataNon-Commercial Use, Backlink Required, a link to apileague.com on your website or application. You may use the data provided by the API League as part of your website, application, or other project, but you cannot use API League data to create a site or application meant to provide the same experience as API League [...] You may not create the impression that your site or application is endorsed by API League, nor may you use any API League brands/logos to promote your site/app without prior permission [...] You may not scrape the API League or in any way attempt to copy or store the information it provides, including any derived, hashed, or transformed data [...] You may not resell any data received via the API League. You may use the API League in order to compare the API League to API League competitors
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 tokens a day
Enough for25 calls a day
Expiresat midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: number
MethodGET
Path/search-images
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

image URL, thumbnail URL, width, height, license name, license link, image ID

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