Octen alternatives

By Wayne Hamadi, founder of Datacircle. Last updated: November 6, 2026

The best Octen alternatives for web search APIs: browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa, by our benchmark of October 30, 2026.

Web search API alternatives

Octen is #15 of the 37 providers we rank.

Every provider of this API, ranked: Web search API: best providers in 2026

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 searches
1	browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack	64.5	78	$0.25
2	Context.dev, $300 monthly	60.7	58	$0.60
3	Exa, top-up from $5, Developer (pay as you go)	60.3	92	$7.00
4	Desearch, top-up	60.1	73	$1.00
5	ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go	60.0	84	$3.00
6	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale	59.3	72	$2.00
7	Search1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise	57.8	67	$2.994
8	Serpex, top-up from $5	57.6	72	$0.80
9	Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go	57.4	84	$5.00
10	Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup	56.8	86	$5.00
11	treg, top-up from $10, Top-up of $10 to $49	56.1	53	$0.04
12	Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go	55.7	58	$1.00
13	Valyu, $29 monthly	55.1	51	$2.90
14	ScrapingDuck, €49 monthly	53.8	77	$0.368
16	Social Fetch, $29 monthly	53.1	58	$1.611
17	Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go	51.1	40	$5.00
18	Liner, top-up	51.0	49	$1.00
19	You.com, top-up, Pay as you go	50.4	49	$5.00
20	Bulkgrid, $79 monthly	50.3	53	$1.58
21	Geekflare, $349 monthly	50.3	49	$0.698
22	LLMLayer, top-up	50.3	49	$2.00
23	ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly	49.6	44	$4.00
24	BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go	48.4	62	$4.00
25	Browserbase, $20 monthly, Developer	47.2	77	$20.00
26	Nimble, pay as you go	46.4	73	$5.00
27	CrawlerData, $50 pack, Starter	45.6	40	$1.00
28	Browserless, $35 monthly	44.5	77
29	AnySearch, $3 pack	43.7	47	$3.00
30	Surf, top-up from $20	40.8	53
31	Bigdata.com, $50 monthly	36.9	49
32	JigsawStack, $27 monthly	36.4	53
33	WaterCrawl, €9 monthly	29.4	56
34	Geonode, $3.90 monthly	26.4	27
35	Notte, $20 monthly	19.0	23
36	LangSearch, free	0.0	0	$0.00. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0.
37	WebSearchAPI.ai, $189 monthly, Pro	0.0	0	We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0.

News API alternatives

Octen is #26 of the 62 providers we rank.

Every provider of this API, ranked: News API: best providers in 2026

Rank	Provider and plan	Overall score	Accuracy score	$ per 1,000 searches
1	The New York Times, free	89.2	90	$0.00
2	Scrappa, $25 pack, Basic	82.5	99	$0.291
3	SerpScraper.dev, $39 monthly	76.6	69	$0.13
4	ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly	75.0	98	$0.50
5	ScrapeUnblocker, €299 monthly	72.6	99	$0.765
6	PerceptLayer, $399 pack	72.0	98	$0.798
7	SerpKite, $300 pack	69.7	83	$0.60
8	Marketaux, $49 monthly	68.8	94	$0.163
9	Litescrape, top-up from $10	68.3	94	$0.15
10	PrismCrawl, $10 pack, Lite	68.0	99	$0.27
11	StockData, $49 monthly	68.0	96	$0.163
12	SerpBase, $3 monthly	67.4	99	$0.30
13	AnswerLine, top-up from $1, Starter	67.0	95	$0.20
14	treg, top-up from $10	67.0	99	$0.484
15	AnyCrawler, $200 monthly	66.7	100	$1.333
16	TheNewsAPI, $49 monthly, Standard, monthly	65.8	92	$0.163
17	DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go	63.7	99	$0.60
18	SERPHouse, $29.99 monthly, Basic	63.6	99	$0.75
19	FlashData, top-up from $10, Pay as you go	63.0	99	$1.00
20	Ujeebu, $299 monthly	62.3	97	$0.498
21	Serply, $375 pack	62.1	99	$0.75
22	Serper, $375 pack	61.9	99	$0.75
23	Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic	61.0	94	$0.76
24	GNews, €249.99 monthly, Enterprise	60.9	77	$0.375
25	GDELT, free	60.8	41	$0.00
27	GloryCloud, $300 monthly	58.9	99	$1.00
28	XCrawl, $499 monthly, Scale	58.7	90	$0.416
29	API League, $199 monthly	58.4	70	$1.061
30	API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request	58.2	99	$8.00
31	Currents API, $150 monthly, Professional, monthly	58.2	79	$0.50
32	Exa, top-up from $5, Developer (pay as you go)	57.5	94	$4.00
33	NewsAPI.org, $449 monthly, Business	57.3	98	$1.796
34	Scavio, $30 monthly	57.3	99	$4.286
35	World News API, $39 monthly	57.2	95	$2.60
36	Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby	56.8	97	$5.00
37	Finlight, $99 monthly	56.6	74	$1.98
38	XMLStock, top-up	56.3	70	$0.298
39	Clair, $30 monthly	55.5	100	$10.00
40	NewsData.io, $349.99 monthly, Professional	55.2	97	$7.00
41	AllNewsAPI, $9 monthly	54.4	66	$0.06
42	Autom, $375 pack	54.2	78	$0.75
43	Pushbuild, top-up	53.8	98
44	NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly	52.9	98	$8.00
45	ValueSERP, $240 monthly	52.8	83	$1.20
46	Webz.io, top-up, Scale	52.6	77	$5.00
47	Syften, $119.95 monthly	52.2	88	$11.995
48	JustSerpAPI, $5 monthly	51.5	94
49	SearchCans, $99 pack	51.5	67	$0.75
50	lobstr.io, $20 monthly	50.8	92	$200.00
51	Scale SERP, $199 monthly	50.2	83	$3.98
52	DataBlue, $59 monthly	50.0	69	$1.639
53	Nimble, pay as you go	48.9	94	$3.00
54	NewsMesh, $199 monthly	48.7	68	$0.796
55	SerpWow, $499 monthly, BigData	46.7	81	$9.98
56	ScraperAPI, $299 monthly, Business	45.3	66	$2.492
57	Novada, $20 monthly, $20	44.4	53	$1.20
58	Zenserp, $499.99 monthly	42.0	50	$1.00
59	Perigon, $25 monthly, Individual	41.5	80	$25.00
60	NewsCatcher, top-up, Individual	36.1	63
61	AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go	29.7	27	$25.00
62	mediastack, $249.99 monthly	26.1	26	$1.00

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