# AnySearch, free: Web search API

> The search infrastructure for the AI era, providing high-quality data sources through a single API.

AnySearch's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: 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/anysearch/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.anysearch.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anysearch.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.anysearch.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.anysearch.com/docs/api-endpoints/v1-search
- Sold by: AnySearch (https://www.anysearch.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: /v1/extract

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The search infrastructure for the AI era, providing high-quality data sources through a single API.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the service in the following manners: [...] Commercial Abuse: Reselling, sublicensing, or otherwise providing API access to third parties without our prior written consent, Using the service to develop products or services that directly compete with AnySearch, Bulk scraping of search results to build competitive datasets. [...] You shall independently ensure that your use of search results complies with applicable laws and regulations and the terms of use of third parties.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests a day
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a day
- Expires: at the end of each billing cycle

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.74 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: max_results, tag, zone, language, params, format
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: adults with full civil capacity

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

result code, message, request ID, page title, URL, snippet, fetched page content, results returned, search time

## AnySearch's plans (2)

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

## AnySearch's calls (1)

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

## AnySearch's APIs (1)

- [AnySearch: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anysearch/free/llms.txt)

## AnySearch: web search API alternatives

- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Serpex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, free credits, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://www.anysearch.com
- https://www.anysearch.com/docs
- https://www.anysearch.com/docs/api-endpoints/v1-search
- https://www.anysearch.com/docs/auth
- https://www.anysearch.com/legal?type=tos
- https://www.anysearch.com/pricing