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AlterLab pricing and alternatives: web search API, Search the web, full

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 457 plans by price. browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry, Context.dev and Desearch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of AlterLab's 10 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, full one of AlterLab's 4 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of AlterLab's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. AlterLab searches the web when you call the API.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for about 142 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v1/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

AlterLab: web search API alternatives

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

AlterLab, $2,000 pack, Deposit $2,000, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, fullbrowserfoundry, $99.99 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v2/deepStaan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search for AI APISearch1API, $19 pack, Pay as you go, $19 (+5% bonus), POST /askThunderbit, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /search, Search and Distill
$ per 1,000 searches$4.667$4.444$4.501$4.762$4.833
Completeness0%33%33%33%50%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay as you gopay firstmonthly
Pay$2,000$99.99monthly$19$29
Enough forabout 428,571 calls22,500 calls a monthas many as you pay for3,990 calls6,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacityanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone who signs upanyoneanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. alterlab.io
  2. alterlab.io/acceptable-use
  3. alterlab.io/api/v1/pricing
  4. alterlab.io/docs/api/search
  5. alterlab.io/docs/reference/limits
  6. alterlab.io/openapi.json
  7. alterlab.io/pricing
  8. alterlab.io/pricing.md
  9. alterlab.io/search-api
  10. alterlab.io/terms

Product details

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

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search30
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape a web page · Scrape a search engine results page · Map API · Crawl API · Extract API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAlterLab is the only search API that goes inside every result. Submit a query and get structured SERP data from Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou retain all rights to the data you scrape using our Service, subject to the rights of the original content owners. We do not claim ownership of your scraped data. However, you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to scrape and use such data. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service for any of the following purposes. This list is not exhaustive, and we reserve the right to determine what constitutes a violation at our sole discretion. [...] Accessing password-protected, login-required, or authentication-gated content without authorization [...] Collecting personal information in violation of privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) [...] Collecting sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, or health data [...] Scraping social media platforms in violation of their terms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) [...] Violating intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademark, or trade secret laws [...] Reselling or redistributing scraped data without proper licensing [...] Attempting to reverse-engineer, decompile, or create competing products using the Service [...] Reselling, sublicensing, or providing access to the Service to third parties without our written consent
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1
Enough forabout 142 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second0.5
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: engine "duckduckgo", domain, num_results, page, country, language, time_range, safe_search, tenant_id, session_pool_id, include_ai_overview, scrape_results true, formats, preset, max_chars_per_result, max_total_chars, extraction_schema
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, number of results requested, number of results, credits used, cost breakdown, total results, result URL, result title, result snippet, result position, result publication date, result displayed URL, result sitelinks, featured snippet, knowledge panel, people also ask, related searches, did you mean, local results, video results, news results, image results, shopping results, ads, AI overview, warnings, result page content

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