# BESS x402, pay as you go: Image search API

> Search openly licensed images (Creative Commons and public domain) from Flickr, Wikimedia and museums via Openverse: image URL, size, creator, license and a ready-made attribution line. Filter to commercially usable images. Use to illustrate posts, slides or sites legally.

BESS x402's x402 pay per call plan for the image search API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site. BESS x402's docs list none of the 5.
We haven't run BESS x402 through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 444 plans for image search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.947 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 19% of the 444 plans.
[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. [SerpBase's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.
[SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go
- [Image search API in 2026: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/media/images`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1media~1images
- Sold by: BESS x402 (https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search openly licensed images (Creative Commons and public domain) from Flickr, Wikimedia and museums via Openverse: image URL, size, creator, license and a ready-made attribution line. Filter to commercially usable images. Use to illustrate posts, slides or sites legally.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: license_type, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/media/images

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, total results, title, image URL, thumbnail URL, page URL, source site, width, height, creator, license, license URL, attribution

## BESS x402's plans (1)

- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## BESS x402's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/media/images`: [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402's APIs (13)

- [BESS x402: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402: image search API alternatives

- [Stophy, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/serp](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-post-v2-serp/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/google/images/search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapebadger/top-up-from-10-payg-get-v1-google-images-search/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Blopus, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/blopus/9-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing