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ContextFetch pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/research

ContextFetch'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 161 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Starter one of ContextFetch's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/research one of ContextFetch's 9 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of ContextFetch's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2.50 of credit once, enough for about 833 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/research. You set depth to "deep". The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no signup and no card, one free key per network. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ContextFetch: web search API alternatives

The table starts with ContextFetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ContextFetch's.

ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/researchbrowserfoundry, $49.99 monthly, Pro, POST /api/v2/search/contentSearlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, fullSearch1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /askValyu, $499 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$2.303$2.222$2.399$2.495$2.495
Completeness17%0%0%17%0%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$499$49.99$29.99$499$499
Enough forabout 216,666 calls a month22,500 calls a month12,500 calls200,000 calls a month200,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone with a signed-in accountanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreement

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. contextfetch.dev/docs
  2. contextfetch.dev/llms.txt
  3. contextfetch.dev/openapi.json
  4. contextfetch.dev/pricing
  5. contextfetch.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
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Search, fast · Search, lite · Search, deep · Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast · Tavily-compatible search, fast · Tavily-compatible search, basic · Tavily-compatible search, advanced · Find similar · Answer · Research · Contents · Reader · Crawl · Map
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA cited report from one call
Data
Keep datano 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 forabout 833 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendquery, depth "deep". Optional: subQueries, numResultsPerQuery, citationFormat, async, contents.text, contents.text.maxCharacters, contents.highlights, contents.highlights.query, contents.highlights.highlightsPerUrl, contents.prunedContext, contents.livecrawl, contents.maxAgeHours, outputSchema
MethodPOST
Path/v1/research
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per network
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, sub-queries, sub-query status, sub-query result count, evidence pack, URL, page title, relevance score, text, highlights, pruned context, sub-queries that found it, report summary, report key facts, report sections, report sources, cost in dollars, cache status, stage timings, token counts, recall sources, warnings, structured output, output grounding

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