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Browserless pricing and alternatives: web search API

Browserless's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 399 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: Free one of Browserless's 8 plans
Call: POST /search Browserless's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Browserless's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the web when you call.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Text, Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Browserless: 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 planBrowserless, freeContext.dev, freeContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSerpex, freeSpider Cloud, free credits, POST /search, SearchBigdata.com, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%17%50%17%17%17%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a monthabout 833 calls, once200 calls250 callsnot published
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone 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 requiredanyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card required

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 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.browserless.io/openapi.json
  2. docs.browserless.io/overview/unit-consumption
  3. docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/intro
  4. docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/search
  5. browserless.io/feature/rest-apis/rank-tracker-api
  6. browserless.io/pricing
  7. browserless.io/pricing.md
  8. browserless.io/scraping
  9. browserless.io/terms-of-service

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
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search3
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Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the web and optionally scrape each result page, returning structured, LLM-ready data.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws) [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us [...] In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to collect or track the personal information of others, (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape, (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose, or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median7.96 s
The call
You sendquery, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, lang, country, location, tbs, categories, sources, proxy, timeout, scrapeOptions.formats, scrapeOptions.onlyMainContent, scrapeOptions.stripNonContentTags, scrapeOptions.removeBase64Images, scrapeOptions.includeTags, scrapeOptions.excludeTags, allowedDomains, credentials, externalProxyServer, integrationId, proxyCity, proxyCountry, proxyLocaleMatch, proxyPreset, proxyState, proxySticky
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residence
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, total results, page title, URL, snippet, result rank, date, image URL, image width, image height, Markdown, HTML, page links, screenshot, HTTP status, scrape strategy, unresponsive engines

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