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AI Search API pricing: web search API

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run AI Search API through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest AI Search API plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of AI Search API's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/search AI Search API's only call
API: Web search API AI Search API's only API

About this item

  • Live. AI Search API searches the web when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send prompt to POST /v1/search. You can also send context and response_type. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

AI Search API: web search API alternatives

AI Search API alternatives: other web search API providers by price

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

AI Search API, top-upDataBlue, $29 monthlySocial Fetch, $225 monthlyScrapa, $19 monthlyWebcrawl, $250 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.50$1.45$1.50$1.52$1.538
Completeness17%33%17%33%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Payany amount$29$225$19$250
Enough foras many as you pay for20,000 calls a month150,000 calls a month12,500 pages a month162,500 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone with an accountanyone aged 13 or over who signs up with an email address, for their internal business purpose

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. aisearchapi.io
  2. aisearchapi.io/blog/ai-search-api-easy-reliable-and-affordable/
  3. aisearchapi.io/pricing
  4. aisearchapi.io/terms
  5. docs.aisearchapi.io/api-reference/about
  6. docs.aisearchapi.io/api-reference/endpoint/search

Product details

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

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  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWeb Search Made Fast, Reliable, and Fully Integrated for Your Agent
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendprompt. Optional: context, response_type
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

answer, response type, source URL, response time

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