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

ContextFetch's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 399 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Starter one of ContextFetch's 7 plans
Call: POST /v1/search, Search, lite one of ContextFetch's 11 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of ContextFetch's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get pages from ContextFetch's index. ContextFetch doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text, Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2.50 of credit once, enough for 5,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set type to "lite". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • 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. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, liteDesearch, top-upParallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, baseTako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant
$ per 1,000 searches$0.384$1.00$1.00$3.00$7.00
Completeness50%17%33%17%33%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstpay as you gopay first
Pay$499any amountany amountmonthlyany amount
Enough for1,300,000 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone with a signed-in accountanyoneanyone outside the jurisdictions export law barsanyone 18 or over with a payment method addedanyone 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. 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
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Search, fast · 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 caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOur index only, the fastest answer
Data
Freshnessstored
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 for5,000 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.13 s
The call
You sendquery, type "lite". 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
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone, 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

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