Alibaba Cloud pricing: web search API
Is Alibaba Cloud yours? Write to us about this page. We invite selected tool providers to our WhatsApp group.
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$2.692per 1,000 searchesCNY 18.00 per 1,000 searches is $2.692 at the European Central Bank's rate of $0.14956 for CNY 1.We haven't run Alibaba Cloud through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 58% of the 569 plans.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: CN Edition (Intelligent) one of Alibaba Cloud's 35 plans
- Pay as you go, CN Edition (Intelligent)CN Edition (Intelligent)$2.692 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, CN Edition (Lite)CN Edition (Lite)$1.196 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Global Edition (GlobalAdvanced)Global Edition (GlobalAdvanced)$8.375 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 1Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 1$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 30 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced Package$6.70 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 2Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 2$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 30 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced Package$6.102 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 3Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 3$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 30 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced Package$5.504 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 4Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 4$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 30 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced Package$4.906 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 1Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 1$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 60 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced Package$6.70 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 2Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 2$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 60 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced Package$6.102 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 3Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 3$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 60 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced Package$5.504 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 1Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 1$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 100 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced Package$6.70 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 60 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced Package$4.906 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 100 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced Package$6.102 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 4Generic Edition 60 QPS, tier 4$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 2Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 2$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 3Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 3$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 100 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced Package$5.504 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 4Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 4$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 100 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 100 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced Package$4.906 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 1Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 1$6.282 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 200 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced Package$6.70 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 2Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 2$5.683 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 200 QPS, tier 2 with Advanced Package$6.102 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 3Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 3$5.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 200 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced Package$5.504 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 4Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 4$4.487 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Generic Edition 200 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced PackageGeneric Edition 200 QPS, tier 4 with Advanced Package$4.906 per 1,000
Call:
POST /, CNAuto one of Alibaba Cloud's 5 calls for this APIPOST /, CNAutoPay as you go, CN Edition (Intelligent)$2.692 per 1,000search/ unified POST /, CNLiteBasicPay as you go, CN Edition (Lite)$1.196 per 1,000search/ unified POST /, GlobalAdvancedPay as you go, Global Edition (GlobalAdvanced)$8.375 per 1,000search/ unified POST /, GenericPay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 1$6.282 per 1,000search/ unified POST /, GenericAdvancedPay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 1 with Advanced Package$6.70 per 1,000search/ unified
API: Web search API one of Alibaba Cloud's 3 APIs
- Web search API
- Phone validation API
POST /, DescribeEmptyNumber - Phone validation API
GET / - Phone validation API
POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForAccount - Phone validation API
POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForPublic - Phone validation API
POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForReal - Phone validation API
POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForSms - Phone validation API
POST /, PhoneNumberStatusForVoice - Email verification API
POST /, SendValidateFile - Email verification API
POST /, ValidateEmail
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay monthly.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You setsearch/ unified engineTypeto "CNAuto". The call returns the matching web pages. - Who can get it: anyone with a real-name-verified Alibaba Cloud account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Alibaba Cloud: web search API alternatives
Alibaba Cloud alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planAlibaba Cloud, pay as you go, CN Edition (Intelligent) | Mojeek, top-up, Startup | Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up | Spider Cloud, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 or more (+12% credits), POST /search, Search and crawl | fastCRW, $47 pack, Standard top-up, POST /v1/search, Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $2.692 | $2.667 | $2.67 | $2.679 | $2.68 |
| Completeness | 33% | 17% | 33% | 17% | 33% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | monthly | any amount | $10 | $2,000 | $47 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | about 746,666 calls | 17,500 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a real-name-verified Alibaba Cloud account | anyone aged 18 or over, or an organisation whose signatory has the authority to bind it, who opens an account with a bank card: its FAQ's "sign up to our Startup Plan and claim a free credit. A bank card is required to open an account however no automatic payments are processed", the plan's Contact button opens a form too ("Please sign me up and send me an API key for the startup plan") | anyone on the Business plan | anyone | a Standard plan subscriber |
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.
- help.aliyun.com/en/direct-mail/user-guide/email-address-validity-verification
- help.aliyun.com/en/document_detail/2837302.html
- help.aliyun.com/zh/cpns/product-overview/billing-overview
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/2862023.html
- help.aliyun.com/zh/document_detail/3062218.html
- alibabacloud.com/help/en/legal/latest/alibaba-cloud-international-website-product-terms-of-service-v-3-8-0
- alibabacloud.com/product/directmail
- alibabacloud.com/product/directmail/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, not in the answer
- Answer, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $2.692 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
|---|
| Most per search | 10 |
|---|---|
| Extra fields | enhanced summary: +$0.419 |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
| Their pitch | UnifiedSearch IQS搜索引擎是一个面向Agent的开放域通用搜索引擎，致力于在检索效果、成本、时延等维度提供更好的服务能力。 |
|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
|---|---|
| Use data | You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations for using the Products (including without limitation, any applicable data protection, import, re-import, export, strategic goods control, and re-export control laws [...]) (3.6), it is solely your responsibility to establish a legal basis for the processing of such data under local law, including providing adequate privacy notices and obtaining any required consents (3.7) |
| Pay | monthly |
|---|
| Per second | 10 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | query, engineType "CNAuto". Optional: timeRange, category, contents.mainText, contents.markdownText, contents.richMainBody, contents.summary, contents.rerankScore, advancedParams.numResults, advancedParams.startPublishedDate, advancedParams.endPublishedDate |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /search/unified |
| Plan | CN Edition (Intelligent) |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a real-name-verified Alibaba Cloud account |
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold
request ID, page title, URL, snippet, published date, main text, markdown text, rich text body, images, site name, site logo, rerank score, dynamic authority score, static authority score, relevance tag, page tags, scene result type, scene result detail, search time, engine type, original query, original time range, query rewrite enabled, rewritten time range, cost credits