Ahrefs pricing: web search API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Ahrefs through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 569 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Ahrefs's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/search Ahrefs's only call for this API

POST /api/searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API one of Ahrefs's 7 APIs

About this item

Live. Ahrefs searches the web when you call the API.
2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests once.
One call. You send query to POST /api/search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ahrefs: web search API alternatives

Ahrefs alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

The table starts with Ahrefs's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Ahrefs's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	Ahrefs, top-up	Geekflare, $10 pack	ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly	Olostep, $200 pack	AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, Google or Bing
$ per 1,000 searches	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00
Completeness	33%	50%	17%	17%	0%
Billing	pay first	pay first	monthly	pay first	pay first
Pay	any amount	$10	$500	$200	$10
Enough for	as many as you pay for	2,500 calls	125,000 calls a month	50,000 calls	2,500 calls
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone with an account, at least 18 years old, or at least 13 with a parent's or guardian's permission	anyone	anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")	anyone at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority), or 13 or older with a parent's or guardian's permission	anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Date
Author, not in the answer
Text
Summary, not in the answer
Links, not in the answer
Answer, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	100
Also pays for	nothing else

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	One API call plugs your product into a 100B+ page index that powers Ahrefs. Results arrive with highlights, ready for your agent or RAG pipeline.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	Upon termination of your use of Yep Services, any license rights granted to you under the Terms will terminate with immediate effect.
Use data	"Ahrefs grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to use Yep Services for the limited purposes set forth in the documentation for Yep Services." [...] "You agree that User will not: [...] modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or reduce Yep Services to human-readable form, or attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models or algorithms of Yep Services (unless legally compelled to by applicable law), [...] except through the designated application programming interfaces provided by Yep Services, use Yep Services through an automated means, such as to use any robot, crawler or scraper to access Yep Services to mine, scrape, extract or otherwise collect information or data, where User uses such application programming interfaces through an automated means, access Content in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages such as robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training or other activities, use Yep Services and Content, in any form and whether in whole or part, to develop a product or service which competes with us or any of our products and services, use Yep Services and Content in infringement, misappropriation or violation of our or others' rights including intellectual property rights and proprietary rights, attempt to exceed, circumvent or bypass any functionalities, restrictions, limits or access features of Yep Services as set out in the API Documentation" [...] "User shall not engage in any use of Yep Services, Content or User Content in violation of intellectual property rights, including but not limited to: reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, trading, transferring, assigning, publishing, licensing, sublicensing, or exploiting for any commercial purposes, any portion of Yep Services, or use or access to Yep Services or the computer code that powers Yep Services, without our express written consent, misrepresenting the ownership or source of Content, such as obscuring, removing, changing or falsifying any trademark, copyright, author attributions or other proprietary notice, and/or reproducing, duplicating, copying, using or publishing any portion of Content to an infringing extent under any laws and regulations applicable to you under the Terms or in a manner intended to substitute or compete with the ownership or source of Content." [...] "You agree to attribute such proprietary rights in any publication or distribution, where applicable." [...] "You agree that we may use User Content for our business and/or operating purposes and that such use is to provide you with Yep Services, including to compile, develop and publish usage and performance information, train our machine learning models and operate, improve, develop, support and evolve Yep Services."

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 requests
Enough for	1,000 calls, once

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: type, limit, language, location, content_type, safe_search, search_mode, include_domains, exclude_domains, start_published_date, end_published_date, start_crawl_date, end_crawl_date
Method	POST
Path	/api/search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone with an account, at least 18 years old, or at least 13 with a parent's or guardian's permission

The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, description, page date, domain, content type, highlights, original query, search type, query language, query country, success, request ID, response time, request cost, cost details, balance before, balance after