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Ceramic pricing and alternatives: web search API

Ceramic's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.25per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 161 plans we rank by price cost $2.50 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is cheaper than 97% of the 161 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Pay As You Go one of Ceramic's 3 plans
Call: POST /search Ceramic's only call
API: Web search API Ceramic's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend all of it on calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You can also send maxDescriptionLength and maxResults. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Ceramic: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planCeramic, top-upFirecrawl, free, Free, POST /v2/searchSearlo, $199.99 pack, Pro, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrapebrowserfoundry, $996 yearly, Startup, POST /api/v2/search/fastSearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, News
$ per 1,000 searches$0.25$0.00$0.222$0.369$0.416
Completeness0%17%0%17%17%
Billingpay firstfreepay firstyearlyyearly
Payany amount$0$199.99$996$4,990
Enough foras many as you pay for500 calls a month900,000 calls225,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years of age with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms and, when using the Services on behalf of an organization, the authority to bind itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone at least 18 years oldanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone

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 2026-10-27.

  1. ceramic.ai
  2. ceramic.ai/pricing
  3. ceramic.ai/terms-of-service
  4. docs.ceramic.ai/admin/rate-limits
  5. docs.ceramic.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
  6. docs.ceramic.ai/api-reference/search

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, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.25
Percall
Billingpay first
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search20
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchWeb-scale search that's 20× cheaper, 10× faster, accurate & fully independent.
Data
Keep data"retain, cache, or store Output beyond what is reasonably necessary to display such Output to your authorized end users in the ordinary and real-time course of use, unless expressly permitted in an applicable Order Form"
Use data"Ceramic hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the Ceramic IP solely for the purpose of receiving the Services for your internal business purposes during the Term." [...] "Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms, you will not (and will not permit others to): (a) reproduce, modify, adapt, or create derivative works of the Services, (b) rent, lease, distribute, sell, sublicense, transfer, or provide access to the Services to a third party, (c) use the Services for the financial benefit of any third party not authorized under these Terms, (d) interfere with or otherwise circumvent mechanisms in the Services intended to limit your use, (e) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, translate, or otherwise seek to obtain or derive the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, models, or non-public APIs of the Services, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law (and then only upon advance notice to us), (f) remove or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in the Services, (g) use the Services for competitive analysis, benchmarking, or to build competitive products or services, (h) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Services without Ceramic's prior written consent, (i) use the Services for any illegal, misleading, or harmful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms, (j) upload or transmit any malicious code, viruses, or harmful programs, (k) interfere with the performance, integrity, or availability of the Services, (l) use Output (as defined below) to develop, train, or improve competing products or services, (m) encourage, assist, or permit any third party to do any of the foregoing, (n) collect, aggregate, store, or compile Output, including search results, relevance scores, or rankings, for the purpose of creating or contributing to any database, dataset, index, or corpus, whether or not such database, dataset, index, or corpus is used for a purpose that competes with Ceramic, (o) resell, syndicate, or otherwise make Output available to any third party on a standalone basis or as a separately accessible component of another product or service, provided that you may display Output to your authorized end users within your own application so long as such Output is integrated into your application's functionality, is incident to the end user’s real-time query, and is not independently accessible, extractable, or downloadable by end users or third parties, or (p) retain, cache, or store Output beyond what is reasonably necessary to display such Output to your authorized end users in the ordinary and real-time course of use, unless expressly permitted in an applicable Order Form."
Plan
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second20
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: maxDescriptionLength, maxResults
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanPay As You Go
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years of age with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms and, when using the Services on behalf of an organization, the authority to bind it
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, page title, URL, description, execution time, total results

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