# AgentSearch, free: Web search API

> AgentSearch Web Search gives agents, LLM search tools and RAG search pipelines live web results as structured JSON: up to 5 ranked results per call with title, URL, snippet, score, domain and date.

AgentSearch's Free tier plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. AgentSearch's docs list 2: Date, Text.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), the best plan from AgentSearch scores 40.1 out of 100. AgentSearch ranks 58th of 76 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 795 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.667 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/free
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agentsearchhq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://relay.agentsearchhq.com/v1/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agentsearchhq.com/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AgentSearch (https://agentsearchhq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 5
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: AgentSearch Web Search gives agents, LLM search tools and RAG search pipelines live web results as structured JSON: up to 5 ranked results per call with title, URL, snippet, score, domain and date.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 requests a day
- Enough for: 25 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 25
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.45 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: max_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, relevance score, domain, published date, query, retrieved at

## AgentSearch's plans (3)

- [AgentSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AgentSearch, pay as you go, Direct x402, POST /x402/v1/search_and_read](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/pay-as-you-go-direct-x402-post-x402-v1-search-and-read/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AgentSearch, pay as you go, Pocket Network](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/pay-as-you-go-pocket-network/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## AgentSearch's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/search`: [AgentSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /x402/v1/search_and_read`: [AgentSearch, pay as you go, Direct x402, POST /x402/v1/search_and_read](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/pay-as-you-go-direct-x402-post-x402-v1-search-and-read/llms.txt)
- `POST /x402/v1/search`: [AgentSearch, pay as you go, Direct x402, POST /x402/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/pay-as-you-go-direct-x402-post-x402-v1-search/llms.txt)

## AgentSearch's APIs (2)

- [AgentSearch: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentsearch/free/llms.txt)
- [AgentSearch: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentsearch/free-trial-post-v1-extract/llms.txt)
- [AgentSearch: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1/render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentsearch/free-trial-post-v1-render/llms.txt)

## AgentSearch: web search API alternatives

- [DataGait, $5 monthly, Subscription, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/5-monthly-subscription-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [SpecStream, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/specstream/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AlterLab, $1,000 pack, Deposit $1,000, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/1000-pack-deposit-1000-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web-full/llms.txt): $5.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://agentsearchhq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://agentsearchhq.com/docs/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://agentsearchhq.com/free-web-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://agentsearchhq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://agentsearchhq.com/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing