# Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, free: Web search API

> It is a fully managed, MCP-compliant web search capability that lets your agents retrieve information from the web without any infrastructure overhead.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's web search API on its Free Tier credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
We rank 379 plans by price. [Octen's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [ContextFetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-basic/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/
- Request: `POST https://<gateway-id>.gateway.bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-target-connector-web-search-tool.html#gateway-target-connector-web-search-tool-input-schema
- Sold by: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: It is a fully managed, MCP-compliant web search capability that lets your agents retrieve information from the web without any infrastructure overhead.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: If you use Web Search Tool, you are responsible for your use, and any use by your end users, of content retrieved from Web Search Tool ("Search Results"). You must retain and display the source citations and links provided with each Search Result in any output you surface to your end users that uses the Search Result. You may not use Web Search Tool to (a) extract, store, or reproduce content from Search Results in bulk, or (b) build or populate a competing index or database.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $200
- Enough for: about 28,551 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Concurrent: 5,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: method "tools/call", params.name "web-search-tool___WebSearch", params.arguments.query. Optional: params.arguments.maxResults, params.arguments.filters.domainFilter.include, params.arguments.filters.domainFilter.exclude, params.arguments.filters.publishedDateFilter.from, params.arguments.filters.publishedDateFilter.to
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Tier credits
- Who can get it: new AWS customers on the Paid plan (up to $200 in credits: $100 at sign-up, up to $100 more earned by exploring key services)

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, page title, URL, snippet, published date

## Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's plans (2)

- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $7.005 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's calls (1)

- `POST /mcp`: [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/free/llms.txt)

## Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's APIs (1)

- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/free/llms.txt)

## Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: web search API alternatives

- [Exa, $1,000 pack, Developer (pay as you go), $1,000 in credits within 30 days: 25 QPS for 90 days, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/1000-pack-developer-pay-as-you-go-1000-in-credits-within-30-days-25-qps-for-90-days-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [GroundRoute, top-up, Managed, POST /v1/search, Search, academic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/top-up-managed-post-v1-search-search-academic/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 14 days
- [Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tako/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v3-search-search-instant/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/7190-yearly-scale-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $7.19 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days

## 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://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/
- https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/
- https://aws.amazon.com/free/
- https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/bedrock-agentcore-limits.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-add-target-api-target-config.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-target-connector-web-search-tool.html
- https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/search/agentcore