API.SH pricing: web search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run API.SH through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 583 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.99 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $15Pay-as-you-go$16.00 per 1,000
- $50 monthlyMonthly $50$8.00 per 1,000
- $100 monthlyMonthly $100$8.00 per 1,000
- $250 monthlyMonthly $250$8.00 per 1,000
- $500 monthlyMonthly $500$8.00 per 1,000
- $1,000 monthlyBusiness$8.00 per 1,000
- Contact usCustom deal
Call:
GET / API.SH's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of API.SH's 33 APIs
- Web search API
- Image search API
GET /bing/ v1/ images - Image search API
GET /google/ v1/ images - News API
GET /bing/ v1/ news - News API
GET /google/ v1/ news - SERP API
GET /bing/ v1/ search - SERP API
GET /google/ v1/ search - Video search API
GET /bing/ v1/ videos - Video search API
GET /google/ v1/ videos - Facebook page API
- Facebook post API
- Google AI Mode scraper API
- Google AI Overview scraper API
- Search autocomplete API
- Instagram post API
- Instagram profile API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn company data API
- LinkedIn company search API
- LinkedIn profile post API
- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn people search API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- LinkedIn post comment API
- LinkedIn post details API
- LinkedIn post reaction API
- LinkedIn post search API
- Reddit post API
- Reddit profile API
- TikTok profile API
- TikTok video API
- X post API
- X profile API
- YouTube channel API
- YouTube channel video API
- Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ page - Web scraping API
GET /web/ v1/ extract
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 125 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendweb/ v1/ search max_,results country,language,format,time,engine,include_anddomains exclude_. The call returns the matching web pages.domains - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
API.SH: web search API alternatives
API.SH alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to API.SH's.
| API.SH, $50 monthly | Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping | BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, advanced | Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic | SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/tavily/search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 | $7.98 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.001 |
| Completeness | 0% | 50% | 17% | 50% | 33% |
| Billing | monthly | yearly | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | $50 | $3,990 | any amount | monthly | £15 |
| Enough for | 6,250 calls a month | about 41,666 calls a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 2,500 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | 2 days | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the company | anyone 18 or over |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
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- 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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: 6,019 other calls |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Searches the web for q and returns the top result pages read in full as clean markdown (or text / HTML), ready for an AI model or a RAG pipeline. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 125 calls a month |
| Expires | unused credits don't roll over |
| Concurrent | no limit |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: max_results, country, language, format, time, engine, include_domains, exclude_domains |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /web/v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address |
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold
engine, pages failed, result position, result title, result URL, result description, result date, result status, result HTTP status, result final URL, result page title, result page description, result language, result author, result published at, result format, result Markdown, result word count, result truncated, result load ms, result error, more results