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Bigdata.com pricing and alternatives: web search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 379 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Starter one of Bigdata.com's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/search Bigdata.com's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Bigdata.com's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the web when you call.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/search with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Bigdata.com: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planBigdata.com, freeContext.dev, freeContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSerpex, freeSpider Cloud, free credits, POST /search, SearchAnySearch, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%17%50%17%17%17%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a monthabout 833 calls, once200 calls250 calls1,000 calls a day
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card requiredanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per networkanyoneanyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card requiredadults with full civil capacity

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. bigdata.com/developers
  2. bigdata.com/pricing
  3. bigdata.com/terms-and-conditions
  4. docs.bigdata.com/api-reference/search/search-documents
  5. docs.bigdata.com/api-rest/openapi/openapi_search_service.json
  6. docs.bigdata.com/api-rest/rate_limits.md
  7. docs.bigdata.com/blog/search/introducing-web-search
  8. docs.bigdata.com/getting-started/bigdata_api_pricing
  9. docs.bigdata.com/getting-started/bigdata_pricing
  10. docs.bigdata.com/release-notes/api_changelog

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search Service · Research Agent · Workflows API · Private Company Overview · Private Company People · Private Company Funding Rounds · Company Profile · Find by details (POST /v1/knowledge-graph/companies) · Find by details (POST /v1/knowledge-graph/people) · Get Subsidiaries · Get by CUSIP · Get by ISIN · Get by Listing · Get by SEDOL
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchToday, we’re introducing Web Search in the Bigdata.com Search API. With a single request, developers can now retrieve live web content alongside Bigdata.com’s premium financial content, using the same API, the same response schema, and the same commercial relationship.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep data4.2 Grounding Right [...] 3. What you may not do. You may not (a) store, cache, retain, or archive the underlying Bigdata Content itself beyond the moment of Consumption [...] 6. Survival of derivative works. Your right to retain and use derivative output you have already lawfully created under a Grounding Right survives termination of your account, but no new Grounding Rights may be exercised after termination. [...] 7. Term [...] 4. Effect of Termination. Upon termination, you will immediately cease to access Bigdata.com and use its Services, cease exercising any further Grounding Rights, and delete (or return, at our sole discretion) any and all copies of Bigdata Content stored in violation of Section 4.
Use data4.1 Grant of Service License Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service, Bigdata.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and not-sublicensable license to use the Services (the Chatbot, the website, the API, and the MCP server). 4.2 Grounding Right [...] 2. What you may do. Under a Grounding Right, you may (a) use Bigdata Content and/or Files to ground a single inference, and (b) retain and keep the derivative output that the Chatbot or your Connected Model produces from that inference. 3. What you may not do. You may not (a) store, cache, retain, or archive the underlying Bigdata Content itself beyond the moment of Consumption, (b) redistribute the underlying Bigdata Content to any third party, (c) treat the Grounding Right as perpetual: each Consumption is a new, separate, one-time right and confers no standing or ongoing license to the underlying Bigdata Content, or (d) use Bigdata Content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any AI or machine-learning model. [...] 4.5 Restrictions You shall not, whether directly, through the Chatbot, through the API, or through a Connected Model: 1. use the Services in a manner that infringes the laws of your country or geographical location, 2. use the Services in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person or company, 3. disassemble, decipher, reconfigure, reverse engineer, decompile, alter, or reproduce the Services, or make derivatives or improvements to any software programs provided by Bigdata.com, 4. combine or integrate the Services with any software, technology, services, or materials not authorized by Bigdata.com, 5. rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available Bigdata.com, or any Bigdata Content, in whole or in part, 6. use the Services or Bigdata Content to create, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve any new or existing AI, machine-learning, or software model that you or third parties might offer, except by written confirmation from us, 7. systematically download, scrape, harvest, or extract Bigdata Content, whether via the Chatbot, the website, the API, or a Connected Model, 8. copy, store, archive, cache, or create a database of Bigdata Content, in whole or in part, beyond what is expressly permitted for a Grounding Right under Section 4.2, 9. use Searches or Responses to develop models, products, or services that compete with Bigdata.com, 10. claim that a Response was human-generated, 11. upload to Bigdata.com any Personal Information that violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enacted by the European Union, or the applicable privacy and data protection law of your location, 12. connect a Connected Model to Bigdata.com via MCP that does not operate under Zero Data Retention, or misrepresent a Connected Model's ZDR configuration. 4.6 Third-Party Services You shall not use Bigdata.com as part of any third-party service, software, platform, or product without express authorization from Bigdata.com. This restriction applies equally to connecting Bigdata.com to a Connected Model that you make available, directly or indirectly, to any third party.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$10
Rate limit
Per second8.33
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.53 s
The call
You sendsearch_mode "fast", query.text, query.external_search.mode "ONLY", query.external_search.values "web". Optional: include_audit, response_detail
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card required
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, timestamp, source name, URL, chunk number, chunk text, chunk relevance, chunk rerank relevance, source tier, usage, request ID, response timestamp, total response tokens

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