# Croma, free, POST /global/web-search/v1: Web search API

> Runs an AI-powered web search and returns structured results: URLs, titles, authors, dates, highlights, and relevance scores.

Croma's Free plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Croma's docs list 3: Date, Author, Text.
We haven't run Croma through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 791 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-post-global-web-search-v1
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.croma.run/global/web-search/v1`
- API key: with the plan, on https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.usecroma.com/guides/global/web-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Croma (https://usecroma.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 400 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Runs an AI-powered web search and returns structured results: URLs, titles, authors, dates, highlights, and relevance scores.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 4. Acceptable use. You agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any applicable law or third-party rights. Use returned data for unlawful discrimination, harassment, or any purpose prohibited by data-protection or consumer-credit law. Attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the Services. Resell or redistribute the Services except as expressly permitted in writing. 5. Lawful use of public-record data [...] You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of that information has a lawful basis and a legitimate purpose, and complies with the applicable data-protection, consumer-credit, and habeas-data rules of the country the records come from. [...] A record coming from a public source does not make it free to use for any purpose [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,500 credits a month
- Enough for: 150 calls a month
- Expires: end of month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /global/web-search/v1

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, publication date, author, highlights, score

## Croma's plans (7)

- [Croma, free, POST /global/web-search/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-post-global-web-search-v1/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, free, Government](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-government/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/20-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/99-monthly/llms.txt): $9.90 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/299-monthly/llms.txt): $8.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/799-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Croma, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

## Croma's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /global/web-search/v1`: [Croma, free, POST /global/web-search/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-post-global-web-search-v1/llms.txt)

## Croma's APIs (3)

- [Croma: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-post-global-extract-markdown-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: web search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-post-global-web-search-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/colorado-sos/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-colorado-sos-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/ct-sos/business/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-ct-sos-business-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/delaware/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-delaware-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /sv/cnr-sv/company/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-sv-cnr-sv-company-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /global/gleif/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-global-gleif-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /jp/nta/company/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-jp-nta-company-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/ny-dos/corporation/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-ny-dos-corporation-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /co/rues/entity-by-nit/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-co-rues-entity-by-nit-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /ve/seniat/rif/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-ve-seniat-rif-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /pe/sunat/ruc/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-pe-sunat-ruc-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/sunbiz/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-sunbiz-entity-v1/llms.txt)

## Croma: web search API alternatives

- [Anspire, top-up, Pro Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anspire/top-up-pro-search-domestic-region-mode-0-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $7.478 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/100-pack-scale-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $8.97 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://api.croma.run/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.croma.run/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/guides/global/web-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/live-lookups.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing