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DataBlue pricing and alternatives: web search API

DataBlue'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 searchesWe rank 399 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of DataBlue's 12 plans
Call: POST /v1/search DataBlue's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of DataBlue's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Text. 1 costs extra: Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set formats to "[]" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

DataBlue: web search API alternatives

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

DataBlue, $7,689 yearlySearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, SearchContext.dev, $5,000 yearlySerpex, top-up from $500CrawlerData, $1,250 pack, Scale, GET /customsearch/v1
$ per 1,000 searches$0.442$0.416$0.417$0.50$0.50
Completeness33%33%17%17%17%
Billingyearlyyearlyyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$7,689$4,990$5,000$500$1,250
Enough for1,450,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls2,500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyone 18 or older using it for a business or profession

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 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.datablue.dev/plans-credits
  2. docs.datablue.dev/rate-limits
  3. docs.datablue.dev/search
  4. datablue.dev
  5. datablue.dev/legal/terms-of-service
  6. datablue.dev/pricing
  7. datablue.dev/search-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
  • Linkscosts more
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search50
Extra fieldsMarkdown, HTML, raw HTML, page links, images, headings, structured data, screenshot, extracted data, page metadata: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 43 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSend a query, and DataBlue searches Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, then optionally scrapes each result into requested page formats in the same job.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the Services to: Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and data-protection laws, Collect, store, or process personal data in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of data subjects, Send spam, malware, or unsolicited communications, or facilitate fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without authorization, Resell, sublicense, or expose the raw Services as a competing API without our written permission, Exceed rate limits, circumvent usage metering, or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure, or Use the Services to build profiles for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, or harassment. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your specific use of the data you obtain through the Services complies with the laws, regulations, and terms that apply to you and to the sources you target.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for500 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendquery, formats "[]", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: num_results, engine, language, country, safe_search, format_options, only_main_content, mobile, mobile_device, headers, cookies, extract, webhook_url, webhook_secret
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, job ID, job status, query, engine requested, engine used, provider used, fallback used, fallback chain, total results, completed results, time taken, result ID, result rank, URL, page title, snippet, result success, scraped

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