# ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced: Web search API

> Point tavily-python or @tavily/core at https://api.contextfetch.dev/tavily and keep your code.

ContextFetch's web search API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text, Answer.
The cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is [Ceramic, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ceramic/99-monthly/llms.txt), at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.
[Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search/llms.txt), [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) and [Valyu](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/valyu/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://contextfetch.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.contextfetch.dev/tavily/search`, Tavily-compatible search, advanced
- API key: with the plan, on https://contextfetch.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://contextfetch.dev/docs#tavily
- Sold by: ContextFetch (https://contextfetch.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Search, fast · Search, lite · Search, deep · Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast · Tavily-compatible search, fast · Tavily-compatible search, basic · Find similar · Answer · Research · Deep research · Contents · Reader · Crawl · Map

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Point tavily-python or @tavily/core at https://api.contextfetch.dev/tavily and keep your code.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Do not use ContextFetch to: break the law, or infringe other people's rights, including copyright and privacy, get around the free-tier limit, for example by rotating IP addresses, attack, overload or probe the service, or try to reach non-public addresses through it, collect personal data about people at scale, or send spam, resell raw access to the API as a competing search API without our written agreement.", "Results are excerpts of third-party pages and belong to their owners. You are responsible for how you use them, including following those sites' terms."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $2.50
- Enough for: about 833 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.67

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "advanced". Optional: max_results, chunks_per_source, include_raw_content, include_answer, include_domains, exclude_domains, topic, time_range, days, start_date, end_date, country, language, filter_by_language
- Method: POST
- Path: /tavily/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone, no signup and no card, one free key per network

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

query, answer, page title, URL, passages, raw content, relevance score, published date, response time

## ContextFetch's plans (7)

- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-100-pay-as-you-go-10-on-top-ups-from-100-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $2.727 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-20-on-top-ups-from-500-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, $199 monthly, Startup, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/199-monthly-startup-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $2.388 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/499-monthly-scale-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): $2.303 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, contact us, Enterprise, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/contact-us-enterprise-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

## ContextFetch's calls for this API (9)

- `POST /v1/answer`: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-answer/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/research`: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-research/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/findSimilar`: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/findSimilar](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-findsimilar/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, deep: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, fast: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt)
- `POST /tavily/search`, Tavily-compatible search, advanced: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- `POST /tavily/search`, Tavily-compatible search, basic: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-basic/llms.txt)
- `POST /tavily/search`, Tavily-compatible search, fast: [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-fast/llms.txt)

## ContextFetch's APIs (2)

- [ContextFetch: web search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [ContextFetch: cached web search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [ContextFetch: cached web search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-tavily-search/llms.txt)

## ContextFetch: web search API alternatives

- [LLMLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/20-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/social-fetch/59-pack/llms.txt): $2.36 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-ask/llms.txt): $2.495 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://contextfetch.dev/docs
- https://contextfetch.dev/llms.txt
- https://contextfetch.dev/openapi.json
- https://contextfetch.dev/pricing
- https://contextfetch.dev/terms