# Anakin, free: Web search API

> Perform an AI-powered web search. Returns an AI-generated summary alongside structured search results with citations, snippets, and relevance scores.

Anakin's web search API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
The cheapest of the 312 plans we rank by price is [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [ScrapingDuck](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingduck/49-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://anakin.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anakin.io/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://anakin.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://anakin.io/docs/api-reference/search/search
- Sold by: Anakin (https://anakin.io)
- 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: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 5,353 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Perform an AI-powered web search. Returns an AI-generated summary alongside structured search results with citations, snippets, and relevance scores.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not (and must not attempt to): use the Services for unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent activities, violate or infringe any third party's rights (including IP, privacy, publicity, or trade secret rights), collect, process, or disclose personal data or sensitive data (e.g., health, financial, government identifiers) without a valid legal basis and all required notices/consents, use the Services to facilitate malware, phishing, credential theft, exploitation, or unauthorized access, interfere with or disrupt Targets or the Services (including excessive load, denial-of-service, or evasion of rate limits), probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems, bypass our access controls, or attempt to circumvent our safety or usage enforcement, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms of the Services (except to the limited extent prohibited by law), resell, rent, or provide access to the Services to third parties as a service bureau, time-sharing, or managed service without our written permission, use the Services to build, benchmark, or improve a competing product or service, or to train models primarily intended to compete with the Services, create multiple Accounts to evade limits, enforcement, pricing, or plan restrictions. [...] you own your Output as between you and us, subject to third-party rights (Targets may own or control content, and you may need licenses/permissions). [...] You grant Anakin (and our affiliates, contractors, and subprocessors) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, reproduce, process, transmit, display, modify (for formatting/processing), and otherwise use Customer Content and Output to: provide, operate, and maintain the Services, prevent or address security issues, abuse, fraud, and operational incidents, comply with law and enforce these Terms, perform analytics, debugging, quality assurance, and service improvement, and train and improve our systems, including models, heuristics, classifiers, extractors, and related technology.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: prompt. Optional: limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, URL, page title, snippet, page date, last updated

## Anakin's plans (30)

- [Anakin, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-business-top-up/llms.txt): $2.67 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Scale top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-scale-top-up/llms.txt): $3.75 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Pro top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-pro-top-up/llms.txt): $14.25 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $19 monthly, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/19-monthly-pro/llms.txt): $11.40 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $19 monthly, Starter (social data)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/19-monthly-starter-social-data/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $100 monthly, Scale](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/100-monthly-scale/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $100 monthly, Growth (social data)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/100-monthly-growth-social-data/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/200-monthly/llms.txt): $2.727 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Build your plan, $300 a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/300-monthly-build-your-plan-300-a-month/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Advanced (social data)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/300-monthly-advanced-social-data/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/400-monthly/llms.txt): $2.308 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $500 monthly, Business](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/500-monthly-business/llms.txt): $2.143 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $500 monthly, Volume (social data)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/500-monthly-volume-social-data/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $600 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/600-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/700-monthly/llms.txt): $1.875 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $800 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/800-monthly/llms.txt): $1.765 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/900-monthly/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $144 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/144-yearly/llms.txt): $7.20 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $804 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/804-yearly/llms.txt): $2.01 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $1,608 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/1608-yearly/llms.txt): $1.827 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $2,412 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/2412-yearly/llms.txt): $1.675 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $3,216 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/3216-yearly/llms.txt): $1.546 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $4,020 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/4020-yearly/llms.txt): $1.436 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $4,824 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/4824-yearly/llms.txt): $1.34 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $5,628 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/5628-yearly/llms.txt): $1.256 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $6,432 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/6432-yearly/llms.txt): $1.182 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, $7,236 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/7236-yearly/llms.txt): $1.117 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Anakin, contact us, Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/contact-us-enterprise/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [Anakin, contact us, Enterprise (social data)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/contact-us-enterprise-social-data/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Anakin's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [Anakin, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)

## Anakin's APIs (11)

- [Anakin: web search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 30 plans, POST /v1/wire/task, Company Employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-company-employees/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 30 plans, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt)

## Anakin: web search API alternatives

- [Nimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-search-search-lite/llms.txt): $1.10 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [browserfoundry, $300 yearly, Essential, POST /api/v2/search/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/300-yearly-essential-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.111 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $279 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/279-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.116 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Geekflare, $696 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/696-yearly/llms.txt): $1.16 per 1,000, 50% 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://anakin.io/docs/api-reference/search/search
- https://anakin.io/docs/documentation/pricing
- https://anakin.io/docs/documentation/rate-limits
- https://anakin.io/docs/social-media/platforms/linkedin
- https://anakin.io/pricing
- https://anakin.io/terms