# Cloudflare, top-up, AI Gateway credits, POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/, Web search, exa: Web search API

> Exa is a good fit when you want to pass concise, query-relevant excerpts straight into a model's context.

Cloudflare's web search API on its AI Gateway credits plan. It costs $7.35 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
Half of the 260 plans we rank by price cost $3.212 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is cheaper than 26% of the 260 plans.
The cheapest plan we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-search-search-full/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-exa
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/
- Request: `POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/`, Web search, exa
- API key: with the plan, on https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/
- Its API docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/how-to-use/#rest-api
- Sold by: Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $7.35
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web search, ceramic · Web search, linkup

## In their words

- Their pitch: Exa is a good fit when you want to pass concise, query-relevant excerpts straight into a model's context.

## Data

- Keep data: Cloudflare sets no time limit: "images, text, and other types of data that you provide as inputs to the Service (“Inputs”) and outputs received from the Services based on your Input (“Outputs”) constitute Customer Content and you retain all applicable intellectual property or other proprietary rights in Inputs and Outputs to or from the Services", the standard terms of the search service provider bind you too where you have agreed none with it
- Use data: Unless otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Cloudflare, you will not and you have no right to: (a) rent, lease, loan, export, or sell access to the Services to any third party, or sign up for the Services on behalf of a third party, (b) interfere with, disrupt, alter, or modify the Services or any part thereof, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks (including Cloudflare’s peering partners’ networks) or services connected to the Services [...], (c) access or use the Services in a manner that violates or is intended to circumvent Service-specific usage limits, quotas, or other restrictions set forth in the Agreement, [...] (e) introduce software or automated agents or scripts into the Services so as to produce multiple accounts, generate automated searches, requests or queries, or to strip or mine data from the Services, [...] (g) reverse engineer the Services, [...] You agree not to, and not to allow third parties to use the Services to: (a) falsely imply any sponsorship or association with Cloudflare, (b) post, transmit, store or link to any files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringe on any person’s intellectual property rights or that are otherwise unlawful, (c) distribute viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, or other malicious code, files, scripts, software agents and programs, (d) facilitate phishing, spamming, or other technical abuse, or (e) engage in any activities that are illegal [...]. Where you have not agreed other terms with the model or search service provider, by using such Third-Party Products, you agree to comply with all restrictions, including any acceptable use policies, in the standard terms of the model or search service provider.

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: account_id, query, provider "exa", options.gateway.id, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, byokAlias
- Method: POST
- Path: /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/

## About the plan

- Plan: AI Gateway credits
- Who can get it: anyone with a Cloudflare account, an AI Gateway and AI Gateway credits loaded, not anyone subject to sanctions or on a list of prohibited or restricted parties

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page title, description, image, favicon, last modified date, query, request ID, latency

## Cloudflare's plans (1)

- [Cloudflare, top-up, AI Gateway credits, POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/, Web search, exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-exa/llms.txt): $7.35 per 1,000, 17% complete

## Cloudflare's calls (3)

- `POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/`, Web search, ceramic: [Cloudflare, top-up, AI Gateway credits, POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/, Web search, ceramic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-ceramic/llms.txt)
- `POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/`, Web search, exa: [Cloudflare, top-up, AI Gateway credits, POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/, Web search, exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-exa/llms.txt)
- `POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/`, Web search, linkup: [Cloudflare, top-up, AI Gateway credits, POST /accounts/{account_id}/ai/websearch/, Web search, linkup](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-linkup/llms.txt)

## Cloudflare's APIs (1)

- [Cloudflare: web search API pricing, 1 plan, Web search, exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudflare/top-up-ai-gateway-credits-post-accounts-account-id-ai-websearch-web-search-exa/llms.txt)

## Cloudflare: web search API alternatives

- [Sofya, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Tavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/30-monthly-project-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [WebSearchAPI.ai, $1,250 monthly, Expert, POST /ai-search, Search API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/websearchapi-ai/1250-monthly-expert-post-ai-search-search-api-full/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [browserfoundry, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/100-pack-scale-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 17% complete

## 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.

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/unified-billing/index.md
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/reference/limits/index.md
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/reference/pricing/
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/about/index.md
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/how-to-use/index.md
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/index.md
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-search/providers/index.md
- https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform/
- https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/