# BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search: Web search API

> Search the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters.

BestSearch's web search API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $4.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Answer.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), 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](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/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://websearchapi.tech/search`, Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://websearchapi.tech/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: BestSearch (https://websearchapi.tech?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Answer: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 48.4
- Price score: 25
- Accuracy score: 62
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 80
- Performance score: 11

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $4.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract · Crawl · Map · Research

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and return relevant results, with optional answers, raw page content, images, and domain or time filters.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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.

## Plan

- Expires: never while the account remains active

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 5.72 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: search_depth, max_results, topic, include_answer, include_raw_content, include_images, include_domains, exclude_domains, exact_match, safe_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- 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

## BestSearch's plans (1)

- [BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

## BestSearch's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /search`, Search: [BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, advanced: [BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)

## BestSearch's APIs (3)

- [BestSearch: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bestsearch/top-up/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: web search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: news API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: news API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-news/llms.txt)

## BestSearch: web search API alternatives

- [Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, instant](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go-x402-or-mpp-paid-per-request-post-search-search-instant/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Geekflare, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/10-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/500-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-11-01.

- https://websearchapi.tech?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing