ContentAPI pricing: web search API, GET /
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$5.39per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ContentAPI through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 712 plans we rank by price cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 37% of the 712 plans.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pro one of ContentAPI's 2 plans
Call:
GET /, Web Search, full one of ContentAPI's 2 calls for this APIGET /, Web Search$49 monthly, Pro$0.49 per 1,000web/ search GET /, Web Search, full$49 monthly, Pro$5.39 per 1,000web/ search
API: Web search API one of ContentAPI's 3 APIs
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 monthly subscription. You pay $49 a month for 100,000 requests, enough for about 9,090 calls. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests don't roll over to the next month.
- One call. You send q and extract=true to
GET /. You can also send limit, top_k, freshness, include_domains, exclude_domains, max_per_domain, country and language. The call returns the matching web pages.web/ search - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
ContentAPI: web search API alternatives
ContentAPI alternatives: other web search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planContentAPI, $49 monthly, Pro, GET /web/search, Web Search, full | AlterLab, $300 pack, Deposit $300, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, full | SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/web/search, Search the web | Bocha, CNY 36 pack | Alibaba Cloud, pay as you go, Generic Edition 30 QPS, tier 3 with Advanced Package | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.39 | $5.263 | $5.316 | $5.384 | $5.504 |
| Completeness | 0% | 0% | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | $49 | $300 | £299 | CNY 36 | monthly |
| Enough for | about 9,090 calls a month | 57,000 calls | 75,000 pages | 1,000 calls | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity | anyone 18 or over | individuals 18 or older (or with a parent's or guardian's consent) and organizations, able to enter a legally binding contract | anyone with a real-name-verified Alibaba Cloud account |
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.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.39 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | monthly |
| $ a month | $49 |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 10 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: GET /youtube/transcript · GET /youtube/metadata · GET /youtube/languages · GET /youtube/channel · GET /youtube/playlist · GET /web/extract · GET /web/metadata · GET /twitter/tweet · GET /twitter/thread · GET /reddit/post · POST /batch |
| Units cap | hard |
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| Their pitch | Search the web and extract content from results in a single API call. Multi-engine aggregation with domain filtering and freshness controls. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Your use of the API is subject to usage limits based on your subscription plan. You agree to: Not exceed your plan's rate limits or request quotas, Not attempt to circumvent usage limits or abuse the Service, Not use the API to violate the terms of service of content platforms (e.g., YouTube), Not resell, redistribute, or white-label the API without written permission, Implement appropriate caching to minimize redundant requests. [...] You may not use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Scrape, download, or redistribute copyrighted content in violation of copyright law, Transmit malware, viruses, or any destructive code, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the integrity of the Service, Engage in any activity that could harm minors, Send spam or unsolicited commercial communications |
| Pay | $49 |
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| You get | 100,000 requests a month |
| Enough for | about 9,090 calls a month |
| Expires | don't roll over to the next month |
| Per day | 10,000 |
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| Per second | 5 |
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q, extract=true. Optional: limit, top_k, freshness, include_domains, exclude_domains, max_per_domain, country, language |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /web/search |
| Plan | Pro |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold
success, credits used, credits remaining, query, result title, result URL, result snippet, total results, result content, result metadata