# Crawl4AI Cloud, free: Web search API

> Crawl4AI's own web search: results ranked and cleaned for reading, browser-free.

Crawl4AI Cloud's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run Crawl4AI Cloud through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 583 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.99 per 1,000 searches or less.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crawl4ai.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.crawl4ai.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawl4ai.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.crawl4ai.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: Crawl4AI Cloud (https://crawl4ai.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Scrape batch · Scrape jobs · Extract · SERP · Answer · Scan · Site crawl · Price · Lead people search · Lead companies search · Lead person · Lead company · Monitors

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Crawl4AI's own web search: results ranked and cleaned for reading, browser-free.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You represent and warrant that, for every request you make, you have the legal right to access, collect, and use the data you request, and that your use complies with all applicable laws, the target site's terms, and any access directives it publishes (including robots directives). [...] You must not use the Services to: Collect personal data for unlawful, deceptive, or abusive purposes, or in breach of data-protection law or a person's rights. Infringe copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, or other intellectual-property or confidentiality rights. Access content behind authentication or paywalls that you are not authorized to access, or circumvent access controls or security measures. Overload, disrupt, degrade, or damage any target site, network, or third party (including denial-of-service). Resell, sublicense, or repackage the Services except as these Terms allow.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: rich
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, result source, follow-up questions, related queries, entity card, videos, news, discussions, did you mean

## Crawl4AI Cloud's plans (8)

- [Crawl4AI Cloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $10 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/10-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.792 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $100 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/100-yearly/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, $4,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/4990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.554 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Crawl4AI Cloud, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

## Crawl4AI Cloud's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Crawl4AI Cloud, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free/llms.txt)

## Crawl4AI Cloud's APIs (3)

- [Crawl4AI Cloud: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawl4AI Cloud: SERP API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawl4AI Cloud: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free-post-extract/llms.txt)
- [Crawl4AI Cloud: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free-post-scrape/llms.txt)
- [Crawl4AI Cloud: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /scrape/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawl4ai-cloud/free-post-scrape-batch/llms.txt)

## Crawl4AI Cloud: web search API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $0.53 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Bocha, CNY 3.60 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bocha/cny-3-60-pack/llms.txt): $0.538 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Search1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/990-yearly-professional-annual-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.55 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $28,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/28000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.554 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://api.crawl4ai.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.crawl4ai.com/legal?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.crawl4ai.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.crawl4ai.com/v1/prices?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://crawl4ai.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing