# AndiAI, free: Web search API

> Performs a web search and returns structured results. Search effort is set automatically per query by default (searchMode=auto), with fixed modes (low-cost, fast, balanced, deep, exhaustive) available for manual control.

AndiAI's web search API on its Developer plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. AndiAI's docs list 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Summary.
We haven't run AndiAI through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://andiai.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.andiai.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://andiai.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.andiai.com/features/query-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AndiAI (https://andiai.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Summary: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /api/v1/search · GET /api/v1/fetch · GET /api/v1/news/{topic}

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Performs a web search and returns structured results. Search effort is set automatically per query by default (searchMode=auto), with fixed modes (low-cost, fast, balanced, deep, exhaustive) available for manual control.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 3.3 Acceptable Use: Don't: Break the law or violate others' rights, Try to break or hack the Service, Share inappropriate or harmful content, Scrape or mass-download content, Create spam or fake accounts. [...] 6.2 Limited License: We grant you permission to use the Service according to these Terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, offset, searchMode, effort, reranker, intent, metadata, extracts, content, maxContentLength, timeout, safe, country, sourceCountry, language, languageMode, units, noCache, dateRange, dateFrom, dateTo, includeDomains, excludeDomains, includeTerms, excludeTerms, parseOperators, linkFormat, imageFormat, filetype, intitle, inurl, intext
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Developer
- Who can get it: anyone 13 or older

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

results type, instant answer, query, intent, timestamp, duration, queries executed, results returned, total results, cached, cache age, cost, effort, corrected query, related searches, topics, related topics, infobox, disambiguation, AI summary, locale, safe search, videos, images, news, citations, categories, places, profiles, social, academic, result query indices, result title, result URL, result description, result source, result date, result modified date, result snippet, result inline answer, result extracts, result language, result site country, result type, result image, result content type, result content safety, result content access, result lead-in, result complete content, result useful content, result retrieved access

## AndiAI's plans (3)

- [AndiAI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [AndiAI, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/49-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [AndiAI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

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

- `GET /api/v1/search`: [AndiAI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt)

## AndiAI's APIs (3)

- [AndiAI: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt)
- [AndiAI: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt)
- [AndiAI: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/andiai/free/llms.txt)

## AndiAI: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, free, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/free-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Exa, free, Starter, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/free-starter-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Desearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/amazon-bedrock-agentcore/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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.

- https://andiai.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://andiai.com/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://andiai.com/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.andiai.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.andiai.com/features/query-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.andiai.com/features/response-format?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.andiai.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.andiai.com/search/search-modes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing