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

> Exa-compatible web search with page Markdown, highlights and a query-pruned context per result, up to 25 results for $1.00 per 1,000 searches.

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-v1-search-search-fast
- [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/search`, Search, fast
- API key: with the plan, on https://contextfetch.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://contextfetch.dev/docs#search
- 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, lite · Search, deep · Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast · Tavily-compatible search, fast · Tavily-compatible search, basic · Tavily-compatible search, advanced · 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: Exa-compatible web search with page Markdown, highlights and a query-pruned context per result, up to 25 results for $1.00 per 1,000 searches.

## 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: 2,500 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1.67

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, type "fast". Optional: numResults, includeDomains, excludeDomains, startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, timeRange, topic, category, includeText, excludeText, userLocation, language, filterByLanguage, freshness, maxTokens, contents.text, contents.text.maxCharacters, contents.highlights, contents.highlights.query, contents.highlights.highlightsPerUrl, contents.prunedContext, contents.livecrawl, contents.maxAgeHours, outputSchema
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

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

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, document ID, URL, page title, relevance score, published date, text, highlights, highlight scores, pruned context, cost in dollars, search time, cache status, stage timings, token counts, recall sources, warnings, structured output, output grounding

## ContextFetch's plans (7)

- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-100-pay-as-you-go-10-on-top-ups-from-100-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.909 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-20-on-top-ups-from-500-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, $199 monthly, Startup, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/199-monthly-startup-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.796 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/499-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.768 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ContextFetch, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): 50% 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/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-fast/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/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/49-99-monthly-pro-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.741 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Context.dev, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.76 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Searlo, $3.99 pack, Micro, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/3-99-pack-micro-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape/llms.txt): $0.798 per 1,000, 17% complete

## 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