# AI Search API, free: Web search API

> Web Search Made Fast, Reliable, and Fully Integrated for Your Agent

AI Search API's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. AI Search API's docs list 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Answer.
We haven't run AI Search API through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](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/ai-search-api/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://aisearchapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.aisearchapi.io/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://aisearchapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.aisearchapi.io/api-reference/endpoint/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AI Search API (https://aisearchapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Web Search Made Fast, Reliable, and Fully Integrated for Your Agent

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: prompt. Optional: context, response_type
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

answer, response type, source URL, response time

## AI Search API's plans (2)

- [AI Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ai-search-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AI Search API, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ai-search-api/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## AI Search API's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [AI Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ai-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## AI Search API's APIs (1)

- [AI Search API: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ai-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## AI Search API: web search API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.45 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $225 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/social-fetch/225-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.52 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Webcrawl, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webcrawl/250-monthly/llms.txt): $1.538 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 2026-10-28.

- https://aisearchapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://aisearchapi.io/blog/ai-search-api-easy-reliable-and-affordable/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://aisearchapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://aisearchapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.aisearchapi.io/api-reference/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.aisearchapi.io/api-reference/endpoint/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing