# AgentsTools, pay as you go: Web search API

> Free-text web search for AI agents: ranked title/url/snippet results fused across multiple engines (Brave, Google, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Startpage, Yahoo), with freshness filters (past day/week/month/year), region/locale and SafeSearch. One call for grounded, up-to-date web results — no keys, no scraping setup.

AgentsTools's x402 pay per call plan for the web search API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. AgentsTools's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text.
We haven't run AgentsTools through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 778 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.844 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 53% of the 778 plans.
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.agentstools.dev/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.agentstools.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#/paid/search_search_get
- Sold by: AgentsTools (https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Free-text web search for AI agents: ranked title/url/snippet results fused across multiple engines (Brave, Google, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Startpage, Yahoo), with freshness filters (past day/week/month/year), region/locale and SafeSearch. One call for grounded, up-to-date web results — no keys, no scraping setup.

## 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: query. Optional: max_results, timelimit, region, safesearch, backend
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

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

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, snippet

## AgentsTools's plans (1)

- [AgentsTools, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `GET /search`: [AgentsTools, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## AgentsTools's APIs (8)

- [AgentsTools: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: GitHub repository API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /crypto/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-crypto-news/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /gdelt/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-gdelt-news/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-extract/llms.txt)
- [AgentsTools: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /structured](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/agentstools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-structured/llms.txt)

## AgentsTools: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $30 pack, Growth Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/30-pack-growth-pack-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search and crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-and-crawl/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AnySearch, $3 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anysearch/3-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.agentstools.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.agentstools.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.agentstools.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing