# ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/research: Web search API

> A cited report from one call

ContextFetch's web search API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: 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-v1-research
- [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/v1/research`
- API key: with the plan, on https://contextfetch.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://contextfetch.dev/docs#research
- Sold by: ContextFetch (https://contextfetch.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- 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 · Tavily-compatible search, advanced · Find similar · Answer · Research · Contents · Reader · Crawl · Map

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A cited report from one call

## Data

- 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 or by polling

## The call

- You send: query, 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/research

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone, 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

## ContextFetch's plans (7)

- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-100-pay-as-you-go-10-on-top-ups-from-100-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $2.727 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-20-on-top-ups-from-500-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, $199 monthly, Startup, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/199-monthly-startup-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $2.388 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/499-monthly-scale-post-v1-research/llms.txt): $2.303 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-research/llms.txt): 33% complete

## 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 /v1/research](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-research/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

- [browserfoundry, $49.99 monthly, Pro, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/49-99-monthly-pro-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $2.222 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Social Fetch, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/social-fetch/59-pack/llms.txt): $2.36 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Searlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/29-99-pack-builder-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape-full/llms.txt): $2.399 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [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