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BestSearch pricing: web search API, POST /search, Search, advanced

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$8.00per 1,000 searchesIn our web search API benchmark, the best plan from BestSearch 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 29% 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, Search, advanced one of BestSearch's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of BestSearch's 3 APIs

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 query to POST /search. You set search_depth to "advanced". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • 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, advancedFirecrawl, $3,990 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/search, Search with Content ScrapingTavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basicSocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/tavily/searchDatabar, $7,339 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$8.00$7.98$8.00$8.001$8.154
Completeness17%50%50%33%0%
Billingpay firstyearlypay as you gopay firstyearly
Payany amount$3,990monthly£15$7,339
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 41,666 calls a monthas many as you pay for2,500 calls900,000 calls a year
Freshnessunknown2 daysliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional useanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the companyanyone 18 or overbusinesses, universities and other organizations, not consumers

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.

  1. websearchapi.tech
  2. websearchapi.tech/docs
  3. websearchapi.tech/pricing
  4. websearchapi.tech/terms

Product details

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  • Answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$8.00
Percall
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search20
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract · Crawl · Map · Research
In their words
Their pitchSearch the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou 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.
Plan
Expiresnever while the account remains active
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, search_depth "advanced". Optional: max_results, topic, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_domains, exclude_domains, exact_match, safe_search
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone 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

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