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Crustdata pricing and alternatives: web search API

Crustdata's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 379 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: $20 free credits one of Crustdata's 4 plans
Call: POST /web/search/live Crustdata's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Crustdata's 9 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the web when you call.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Author, Text.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send query to POST /web/search/live. You set the x-api-version header to "2025-11-01". You can also send location, sources, site, start_date, end_date, human_mode and page. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Crustdata: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planCrustdata, free, $20 free creditsContext.dev, freeContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSerpex, freeSpider Cloud, free credits, POST /search, SearchBulkgrid, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%17%50%17%17%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a monthabout 833 calls, once200 calls250 callsnot published
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per networkanyoneanyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card requiredanyone aged 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement

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. crustdata.com/apis/people-enrichment
  2. crustdata.com/pricing
  3. crustdata.com/terms
  4. docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/web-apis/web-search
  5. docs.crustdata.com/general/credits
  6. docs.crustdata.com/general/data-updates
  7. docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing
  8. docs.crustdata.com/general/rate-limits
  9. docs.crustdata.com/web-docs/search/introduction
  10. docs.crustdata.com/web-docs/search/reference

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
  • 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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: People enrich (/person/enrich) · People search (/person/search) · People identify (/person/identify) · Person verify (/batch/person/verify) · Company enrich (/company/enrich) · Job search (/job/search) · Web fetch (/web/enrich/live) · Social post search (/social_post/search) · People search watcher (/watch/person/search) · Job search watcher (/watch/job/search) · Social post search watcher (/watch/social_post/search) · Person watcher (/watch/person) · Company watcher (/watch/company) · Company search (/company/search) · Company search watcher (/watch/company/search)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPerform a web search query and return results from multiple sources including web, news, academic articles, academic author profiles, deep research results, and social media.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, and x-api-version header "2025-11-01". Optional: location, sources, site, start_date, end_date, human_mode, page
MethodPOST
Path/web/search/live
About the plan
Plan$20 free credits
Who can get itanyone
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, timestamp, total results, failed pages, empty pages, source, page title, URL, snippet, position, citation string, PDF URL, authors, citation count, author name, author affiliation, author website, author interests, author thumbnail, author citation counts, h-index, i10-index, top articles, AI overview text, AI overview references, AI overview images

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