# Cloudsway SmartSearch, free: Web search API

> Retrieve ranked web results with rich snippets, page content, and source metadata to support research and grounded answers.

Cloudsway SmartSearch's web search API on its Free Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Cloudsway SmartSearch's docs list none of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
We haven't run Cloudsway SmartSearch through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less.
[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/cloudsway-smartsearch/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.cloudsway.ai/product/search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://aisearchapi.cloudsway.net/api/search/smart`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.cloudsway.ai/product/search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.cloudsway.ai/docs/content/category-8/document-8?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Cloudsway SmartSearch (https://www.cloudsway.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Reader API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve ranked web results with rich snippets, page content, and source metadata to support research and grounded answers.

## Data

- Freshness: 10 minutes
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 calls
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: count, freshness, enableContent, sites, blockWebsites, Pragma
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/search/smart

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an account and binds and activates a credit card

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result rank, result title, result URL, result publish date, result summary, result source, result content crawled, result full content, result logo, request ID

## Cloudsway SmartSearch's plans (3)

- [Cloudsway SmartSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 10 minutes
- [Cloudsway SmartSearch, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/top-up/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 10 minutes
- [Cloudsway SmartSearch, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, 10 minutes

## Cloudsway SmartSearch's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/search/smart`: [Cloudsway SmartSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/free/llms.txt)

## Cloudsway SmartSearch's APIs (2)

- [Cloudsway SmartSearch: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/free/llms.txt)
- [Cloudsway SmartSearch: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/cloudsway-smartsearch/free/llms.txt)

## Cloudsway SmartSearch: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-search-search-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [DataGait, $5 monthly, Subscription, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/5-monthly-subscription-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Quercle, $5 pack, Starter, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/5-pack-starter-post-v1-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://msp.cloudsway.net/ssas-admin-api/cms/files/docs/Usearch/Get%20started.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai/ai/product-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai/docs/content/category-8/document-8?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai/docs/content/category-8/document-9?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.cloudsway.ai/product/search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing