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Grounder Image search API pricing

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0% complete: none of the 5 fields on our checklistSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Grounder through our image search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 490 plans for image search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 or less per 1,000 searches. 166 image search API plans on our price sheet are free. SerpScraper.dev has a free plan with 5,000 calls in total. SerpScraper.dev is the best image search API in our benchmark.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. SerpBase's $3 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.SerpScraper.dev, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Grounder plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Grounder's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search Grounder's only call for this API
API: Image search API one of Grounder's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Returns none of the 5 fields on our checklist: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a day.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set features to "image-search" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the images that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Grounder: image search API alternatives

Grounder alternatives: other image search API providers by price

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

Grounder, top-up from $5SerpWow, $155 monthly, Starter, GET /search, Bing ImagesAgent402 Tools, pay as you gox402node, pay as you goTinEye, $1,000 pack, Corporate, POST /rest/search/
$ per 1,000 searches$19.00$15.50$20.00$20.00$20.00
Completeness0%40%80%40%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay as you gopay as you gopay first
Pay$5$155per callper call$1,000
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for50,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verifiedanyoneanyone at least 18 (or the age of majority where they live, if higher), able to form a binding contract, not barred from receiving services under U.S. or other applicable law, not in an embargoed jurisdiction and not on a U.S. government sanctions list, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (or USDG on Robinhood Chain) over x402 or MPPanyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API keyanyone

Sources

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

  1. grounder.net
  2. grounder.net/docs/api
  3. grounder.net/docs/api/search
  4. grounder.net/docs/drop-in
  5. grounder.net/docs/providers
  6. grounder.net/docs/routing
  7. grounder.net/openapi.json
  8. grounder.net/pricing
  9. grounder.net/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: Search · Tavily request format · Brave request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (news) · Search (video-search) · Search (page-text)
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchImages from the web that match a query, each with its image address, size and the page it appears on.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use Grounder to: break the law, or infringe or violate anyone's rights, get around the free allowance, rate limits or other limits, including by opening extra accounts, resell or redistribute access to the service, or offer its results as a search service of your own, without our written permission, disrupt, overload or attack the service, or test its security without our permission, work out how Grounder decides where a search goes, or build a competing router with it, send searches that break a search provider's terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, features "image-search", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: top_k, filters.domains, filters.recency, filters.language, filters.publisher_ids, filters.article_types, filters.temporal_sensitivity, include_text, text_max_chars, requested_provider, providers, realtime, routing_settings, profile, workspace, context.user_location, context.user_time_zone, urls
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified
The 47 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, request ID, workspace, root query ID, features, routing policy, provider call provider, provider call status, provider call latency, provider call result count, provider call mode, provider call results requested, provider call unique result count, provider call fresh result count, provider call cost units, provider call cost unit, provider call features, live data call provider, live data call status, live data call latency, live data call result count, live data call mode, live data call results requested, live data call unique result count, live data call fresh result count, live data call cost units, live data call cost unit, live data call features, citation request, latency, cached, licensed result count, cost in dollars, response count, historical count known, counting started at, result ID, rank, provider, found by, licensed, licensed basis, promoted, result features, image URL, image size, page URL

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