# API League, free: Image search API

> Search through hundreds of thousands of royalty free images to match any topic you want.

API League's image search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns none of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site.
We haven't run API League through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/free
- [Image search API: 16 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.apileague.com/search-images`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apileague.com/apis/search-images-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: API League (https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 54 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search through hundreds of thousands of royalty free images to match any topic you want.

## Data

- Keep data: no copy or storage of what it provides, with prior written permission, a cache of user-requested data for a maximum of 1 hour
- Use data: Non-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 get: 50 tokens a day
- Enough for: 25 calls a day
- Expires: at midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: number
- Method: GET
- Path: /search-images

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## API League's plans (4)

- [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [API League, $7 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/7-monthly/llms.txt): $0.933 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [API League, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/39-monthly/llms.txt): $0.52 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [API League, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.265 per 1,000, 0% complete

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

- `GET /search-images`: [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

## API League's APIs (5)

- [API League: email verification API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)
- [API League: image search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)
- [API League: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)
- [API League: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)
- [API League: web search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

## API League: image search API alternatives

- [ScrapeBadger, $36,000 yearly, Max, GET /v1/yahoo/images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapebadger/36000-yearly-max-get-v1-yahoo-images/llms.txt): $0.263 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $160,000 yearly, Ultra Pro, GET /google_images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapingdog/160000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.267 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [PrismCrawl, $10 pack, Lite, POST /v1/microsoft/images/search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/prismcrawl/10-pack-lite-post-v1-microsoft-images-search/llms.txt): $0.27 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrappa, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrappa/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.27 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 2026-11-02.

- https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/apis/search-images-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing