# Grounder, free: Image search API

> Images from the web that match a query, each with its image address, size and the page it appears on.

Grounder's Free plan for the image search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 5 fields: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and Site. Grounder's docs list none of the 5.
We haven't run Grounder through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt) 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](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/grounder/free
- [Best image search API: Google and Bing Images compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.grounder.net/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://grounder.net/docs/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing#features
- Sold by: Grounder (https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## 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: 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 pitch: Images from the web that match a query, each with its image address, size and the page it appears on.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don'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 get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Grounder's plans (2)

- [Grounder, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

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

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

## Grounder's APIs (5)

- [Grounder Image search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder News API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Video search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/claude-desktop/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-claude-desktop-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-tavily-search/llms.txt)

## Grounder: image search API alternatives

[Grounder alternatives: other image search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/grounder-alternatives.txt)

We list Grounder's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Grounder in price per 1,000 searches.

- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [SerpWow, $155 monthly, Starter, GET /search, Bing Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpwow/155-monthly-starter-get-search-bing-images/llms.txt): $15.50 per 1,000, 40% complete, live
- [Agent402 Tools, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 80% complete, live
- [x402node, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [TinEye, $1,000 pack, Corporate, POST /rest/search/](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/tineye/1000-pack-corporate-post-rest-search/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## 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.

- https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/drop-in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/routing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing