BestSearch pricing: web search API, POST /
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$4.00per 1,000 searchesIn our web search API benchmark, this plan scores 48.4 out of 100. BestSearch ranks 24th of 37 providers.Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 46% of the 569 plans.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: Pay as you go BestSearch's only plan
Call:
POST /, Search one of BestSearch's 2 calls for this APIPOST /, SearchTop-up, Pay as you go$4.00 per 1,000search POST /, Search, advancedTop-up, Pay as you go$8.00 per 1,000search
API: Web search API one of BestSearch's 3 APIs
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
- News API
POST /, Search, advanced, newssearch - News API
POST /, Search, newssearch
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Answer.
- A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. The call returns the matching web pages.search - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
BestSearch: web search API alternatives
BestSearch alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planBestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search | Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instant | Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth, POST /v2/search, Search | Geekflare, $10 pack | ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 100% | 33% | 50% | 17% |
| Billing | pay first | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | any amount | per call | $5 | $10 | $500 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 1,250 calls | 2,500 calls | 125,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use | AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone | anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.") |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.
Product details
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- Answer
| Overall score | 48.4 |
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| Price score | 25 |
| Accuracy score | 62 |
| Cost to get started score | 93 |
| Bundle score | 80 |
| Performance score | 11 |
| $ per 1,000 searches | $4.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay first |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 20 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Extract · Crawl · Map · Research |
| Their pitch | Search the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You may not use BestSearch to: break any law, court order, sanction, or third-party right, infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or database rights, distribute malware, phishing, spam, fraudulent content, or abusive automation, collect, expose, or misuse sensitive personal data without a lawful basis, probe, bypass, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or evade security and rate limits, resell upstream credentials, conceal the origin of abusive traffic, or use the service for a prohibited or high-risk business, submit content that you do not have the right to process. [...] You are responsible for reviewing results and complying with the terms and rights that apply to your use. [...] These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access the service during your account term. |
| Expires | never while the account remains active |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 5.72 s |
| You send | query. Optional: search_depth, max_results, topic, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_domains, exclude_domains, exact_match, safe_search |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /search |
| Plan | Pay as you go |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, answer, images, results, raw page content, response time, request ID