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CrawlerData pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/openwebui/search

CrawlerData'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 292 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and ScrapingDuck are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 50 free credits one of CrawlerData's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/openwebui/search one of CrawlerData's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of CrawlerData's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/openwebui/search. You can also send count. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CrawlerData: web search API alternatives

The table starts with CrawlerData's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to CrawlerData's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

CrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/openwebui/searchContext.dev, $9,500 yearlySearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, NewsSerpex, top-up from $500Geekflare, $3,492 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.30$0.317$0.416$0.50$0.582
Completeness17%17%33%17%50%
Billingpay firstyearlyyearlypay firstyearly
Pay$3,750$9,500$4,990$500$3,492
Enough for12,500,000 calls2,500,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls500,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or older using it for a business or professionanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. api.crawlerdata.com/openapi.json
  2. crawlerdata.com
  3. crawlerdata.com/legal/acceptable-use
  4. crawlerdata.com/legal/terms
  5. crawlerdata.com/pricing
  6. crawlerdata.com/serpapi-compatible-api

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
Most per search10
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Search · Google Images · Google News · Google Local · Google Shopping Search · Google Shopping Product + Sellers · Google Shopping Product Info · Google Autocomplete · SerpApi-compatible search, engine google · SerpApi-compatible search, engine google_news · SerpApi-compatible search, engine google_shopping · Custom Search JSON API-compatible web search
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOpen WebUI. Point Open WebUI's external web search provider at POST /v1/openwebui/search with your CrawlerData key.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"You may build your own products, analyses and insights on top of Results, but you may not resell raw access to the Service or use it to build a competing service, as set out in the AUP." "You must not: resell, sublicense or provide raw access to the Service or its API to third parties, offer the Service under your own brand (white-labeling) or act as a proxy that passes Queries and Results through with little or no change, or use the Service or Results to build or offer a search results, shopping data or scraping API that competes with the Service." "You must not use the Service or Results to: collect or process personal data without a lawful basis, or in breach of data protection law, build profiles of, track, monitor or carry out surveillance of individuals, stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate or bully anyone, or publish anyone's private information (doxxing), target special categories of personal data (such as health, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or political opinions) or data about children, make or support decisions about individuals' eligibility for housing, credit, employment, insurance or similar opportunities, or discriminate against anyone unlawfully, or build people-search or background-check databases." "You must not use the Service or Results for, or in support of: fraud, scams, phishing, impersonation or any deceptive practice, spam or unsolicited bulk messages, distributing malware or otherwise harming any system or network, click fraud, ad fraud or generating fake clicks, impressions or other traffic, manipulating search engine rankings, results or autocomplete suggestions by deceptive or artificial means, including fake engagement and link schemes, or creating, buying or manipulating reviews or ratings." "You must not use the Service or Results to infringe copyright, trademark, database or other intellectual property rights." "We do not grant you any rights in that content. You are responsible for obtaining any licence or permission you need for the way you use it."
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median7.49 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count
MethodPOST
Path/v1/openwebui/search
About the plan
Plan50 free credits
Who can get itnew accounts that verify a company (work) email address, one trial per person and per company
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet

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