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Context.dev pricing and alternatives: web search API

Context.dev's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is Ceramic, $99 monthly, at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.Search1API, Firecrawl and Valyu are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Tier one of Context.dev's 12 plans
Call: POST /v1/web/search Context.dev's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Context.dev's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/web/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per person. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Context.dev: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Context.dev's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Context.dev's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Context.dev, $9,500 yearlySearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, NewsSerpex, top-up from $500Oxylabs, $30 monthlyNimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, lite
$ per 1,000 searches$0.317$0.416$0.50$1.00$1.10
Completeness17%33%17%17%17%
Billingyearlyyearlypay firstmonthlypay as you go
Pay$9,500$4,990$500$30monthly
Enough for2,500,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls30,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone who signs up

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. docs.context.dev/account/billing
  2. docs.context.dev/account/credits
  3. docs.context.dev/api-reference/people/enrich
  4. docs.context.dev/api-reference/web-scraping/search.md
  5. docs.context.dev/optimization/rate-limits
  6. docs.context.dev/optimization/responsible-use
  7. docs.context.dev/people/overview
  8. docs.context.dev/search/overview.md
  9. docs.context.dev/search/page-content.md
  10. context.dev/people-enrichment
  11. context.dev/pricing
  12. context.dev/search-api
  13. context.dev/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Extra fieldshighlights, highlights outcome: +$0.00 · page markdown, markdown final DOM state, markdown outcome: +$0.00
Also pays forLogo Link · from the same budget: Scrape · Map URLs · Crawl Website · Search People · Answers · Search Companies · Retrieve Brand · Search Brands · Extract Styleguide · Search News · Parse File · Batches · Monitor runs · Enrich Person
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the live web in plain language and get ranked results with the passages that matter, ready to ground answers and cite sources.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataAs a user of the Services, you agree not to: [...] Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
Use dataThe Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us. [...] As a user of the Services, you agree not to: [...] Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise. [...] "Customer IP" means the queries, prompts, URLs, instructions, and other content you submit to the Services, together with the results returned in response. You retain any rights you hold in that content. [...] API access does not grant a license to reuse third-party material.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: numResults, includeDomains, excludeDomains, freshness, country, languages, markdownOptions.enabled, markdownOptions.includeLinks, markdownOptions.includeImages, markdownOptions.shortenBase64Images, markdownOptions.useMainContentOnly, markdownOptions.pdf.shouldParse, markdownOptions.pdf.start, markdownOptions.pdf.end, markdownOptions.includeFrames, markdownOptions.maxAgeMs, markdownOptions.waitForMs, markdownOptions.timeoutOpts.milliseconds, markdownOptions.timeoutOpts.behavior, highlightsOptions.enabled, highlightsOptions.maxCharacters, descriptionMaxCharacters, timeoutOpts.milliseconds, timeoutOpts.behavior, zdr, tags
MethodPOST
Path/v1/web/search
About the plan
PlanFree Tier
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per person
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, description, relevance, partial results, query, cache status, cache age, request ID, credits consumed, credits remaining

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