# Ahrefs, free: Web search API

> 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.

Ahrefs's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
We haven't run Ahrefs through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/free
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://platform.yep.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://platform.yep.com/api/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://platform.yep.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://platform.yep.com/api-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Ahrefs (https://ahrefs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## 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: 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

## Ahrefs's plans (3)

- [Ahrefs, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Ahrefs, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/top-up/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Ahrefs, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/search`: [Ahrefs, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/free/llms.txt)

## Ahrefs's APIs (7)

- [Ahrefs: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ahrefs/free/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: backlink API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks, Backlinks](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-all-backlinks-backlinks/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: backlink API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/site-explorer/all-backlinks, Backlinks, full](https://datacircle.dev/backlink-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-all-backlinks-backlinks-full/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: domain authority API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/site-explorer/backlinks-stats](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-backlinks-stats/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: domain authority API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/site-explorer/domain-rating](https://datacircle.dev/domain-authority-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-domain-rating/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: related keywords API pricing, 7 plans, matching-terms, Matching terms](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-matching-terms-matching-terms/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: related keywords API pricing, 7 plans, matching-terms, Matching terms, full](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-matching-terms-matching-terms-full/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: related keywords API pricing, 7 plans, related-terms, Related terms](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-related-terms-related-terms/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: related keywords API pricing, 7 plans, related-terms, Related terms, full](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-related-terms-related-terms-full/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: ranked keywords API pricing, 7 plans, Organic keywords](https://datacircle.dev/ranked-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-organic-keywords-organic-keywords/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: ranked keywords API pricing, 7 plans, Organic keywords, full](https://datacircle.dev/ranked-keywords-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-site-explorer-organic-keywords-organic-keywords-full/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: keyword research API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview, Overview](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-overview-overview/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: keyword research API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/keywords-explorer/overview, Overview, full](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-keywords-explorer-overview-overview-full/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/serp-overview/serp-overview, SERP Overview](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-serp-overview-serp-overview-serp-overview/llms.txt)
- [Ahrefs: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v3/serp-overview/serp-overview, SERP Overview, full](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/ahrefs/129-monthly-lite-get-v3-serp-overview-serp-overview-serp-overview-full/llms.txt)

## Ahrefs: web search API alternatives

- [Geekflare, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/10-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/500-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/200-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, Google or Bing](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web-google-or-bing/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-11-04.

- https://ahrefs.com/yep?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://platform.yep.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://platform.yep.com/api-documentation.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://platform.yep.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://platform.yep.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing