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CrawlForge pricing and alternatives: web search API

CrawlForge's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 334 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of CrawlForge's 8 plans
Call: POST /tools/search_web CrawlForge's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of CrawlForge's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send one of query or queries to POST /tools/search_web. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send limit, offset, lang, site, safe_search, time_range, file_type, redact_pii and max_inline_chars. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

CrawlForge: web search API alternatives

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

CrawlForge, $3,990 yearlySpider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search and crawlContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advancedGeekflare, $192 yearlySearch1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /search, Search, full
$ per 1,000 searches$3.325$3.00$3.00$3.20$3.30
Completeness33%17%50%50%33%
Billingyearlypay firstpay firstyearlyyearly
Pay$3,990$1$10$192$990
Enough for1,200,000 calls a yearabout 333 callsabout 3,333 calls5,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone

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. crawlforge.dev
  2. crawlforge.dev/acceptable-use
  3. crawlforge.dev/docs/api-reference
  4. crawlforge.dev/docs/api-reference/tools/search-web
  5. crawlforge.dev/pricing
  6. crawlforge.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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: agent · analyze_content · batch_scrape · browser_session · crawl_deep · deep_research · extract_content · extract_embedded_state · extract_links · extract_metadata · extract_structured · extract_text · extract_with_llm · fetch_url · generate_llms_txt · get_batch_results · list_ollama_models · localization · map_site · process_document · read_result · reddit_search · scrape · scrape_structured · scrape_template · scrape_with_actions · serp_rank · stealth_mode · summarize_content · track_changes
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA live web index, as JSON.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"You retain all ownership rights to data you submit to the Service and data extracted using the Service (\"User Data\"). However, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, process, and store User Data solely to provide and improve the Service." [...] "Data scraped from third-party websites remains the property of those websites and their respective owners. You are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to scrape and use such data in compliance with applicable laws and website terms." [...] "we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your internal business purposes." [...] "The following activities are strictly prohibited:" "Scraping websites in violation of their Terms of Service or robots.txt directives", "Accessing data you are not authorized to access under applicable law or agreement", "Collecting personal data in violation of privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)", "Scraping content protected by intellectual property rights without permission", "Circumventing authentication, security measures, or access controls" [...] Prohibited Activities: "Use the Service to scrape content for spam, phishing, or malicious purposes", "Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Service without written authorization", "Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code", "Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers/networks connected to the Service", "Use automated systems (bots, scripts) to create accounts or consume credits fraudulently", "Transmit viruses, malware, or other malicious code through the Service", "Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation" [...] Restrictions: "Copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Service", "Remove or alter any proprietary notices or labels on the Service", "Use the Service to develop competing products or services", "Publicly disseminate performance benchmarks without written permission" [...] "Do not use CrawlForge to scrape, collect, or distribute illegal content, including copyrighted materials without authorization, personal data in violation of privacy laws, or content that violates intellectual property rights." "Do not collect email addresses, phone numbers, or other contact information for the purpose of sending unsolicited communications (spam), phishing attempts, or fraudulent activities."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for200 calls
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of query or queries, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, offset, lang, site, safe_search, time_range, file_type, redact_pii, max_inline_chars
MethodPOST
Path/tools/search_web
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Service, one free account each
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, URL, page title, snippet, display link, formatted URL, HTML snippet, HTML title, thumbnail URL, published date, results returned, result offset, search time, language, safe search, time range, site, file type, spelling correction, credits used, credits remaining, processing time, warning

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