Alibaba Cloud IQS pricing: web search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Alibaba Cloud IQS 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.
Plan: Free trial credits one of Alibaba Cloud IQS's 20 plans
- FreeFree trial credits$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Lite (engineType CNLiteBasic)Lite (engineType CNLiteBasic)$1.196 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Auto (engineType CNAuto)Auto (engineType CNAuto)$2.692 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Global (engineType GlobalAdvanced)Global (engineType GlobalAdvanced)$8.375 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 30 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)Generic 30 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 30 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)Generic 30 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 30 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)Generic 30 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 30 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)Generic 30 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 60 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)Generic 60 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 60 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)Generic 60 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 60 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)Generic 60 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 100 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)Generic 100 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 60 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)Generic 60 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 100 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)Generic 100 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 100 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)Generic 100 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 100 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)Generic 100 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 200 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)Generic 200 QPS, tier 1 (engineType Generic)$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 200 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)Generic 200 QPS, tier 2 (engineType Generic)$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 200 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)Generic 200 QPS, tier 3 (engineType Generic)$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic 200 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)Generic 200 QPS, tier 4 (engineType Generic)$4.487 per 1,000
Call:
POST / Alibaba Cloud IQS's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of Alibaba Cloud IQS's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Links.
- Nothing to pay. Alibaba Cloud IQS limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. The call returns the matching web pages.search/ unified - Who can get it: anyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verification. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Alibaba Cloud IQS: web search API alternatives
Alibaba Cloud IQS alternatives: other web search API providers by price
The table starts with Alibaba Cloud IQS's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Alibaba Cloud IQS's.
| Alibaba Cloud IQS, pay as you go, Lite (engineType CNLiteBasic) | Diffbot, $299 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v1/web_search | Alibaba Cloud, pay as you go, CN Edition (Lite) | Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search | Searlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1.196 | $1.196 | $1.196 | $1.198 | $1.198 |
| Completeness | 50% | 17% | 33% | 33% | 17% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go | yearly | pay first |
| Pay | monthly | $299 | monthly | $7,190 | $799 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 250,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 500,000 calls a month | about 666,666 calls |
| Who can get it | anyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verification | anyone 13 or over | anyone with a real-name-verified Alibaba Cloud account | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone at least 18 years old |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/2870227.html
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3057186.html
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3061214.html
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3062218.html
- terms.aliyun.com/legal-agreement/terms/suit_bu1_ali_cloud/suit_bu1_ali_cloud201802281451_77479.html
- aliyun.com/product/iqs
- aliyun.com/product/iqs/pricing
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
- Answer, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | 信息查询服务让每个大模型都能轻松访问全网最新、最准确的信息。 |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | 10.1. 在本协议项下一方向对方提供的任何资料、技术或技术支持、软件、服务等的知识产权均属于提供一方或其合法权利人所有；除提供方或合法权利人明示同意外，另一方无权复制、传播、转让、许可或提供他人使用上述知识成果，否则应承担相应的责任。 |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: engineType, timeRange, category, locationInfo.city, locationInfo.ip, contents.mainText, contents.markdownText, contents.richMainBody, contents.summary, contents.rerankScore, advancedParams.numResults, advancedParams.startPublishedDate, advancedParams.endPublishedDate, advancedParams.includeSites, advancedParams.excludeSites |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /search/unified |
| Plan | Free trial credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone with an Alibaba Cloud account that has passed real-name verification |
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold
request ID, page title, URL, snippet, published date, main text, markdown text, rich text, page images, site name, logo, rerank score, host authority score, website authority score, relevance tag, page tags, scene results, search time, engine type, original query