# DataGait, free, POST /search, Search, fast: Web search API

> Live web results, ranked for your task — with the excerpts that answer it.

DataGait's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. DataGait's docs list 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run DataGait through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-fast
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://datagait.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://engine.datagait.com/search`, Search, fast
- API key: with the plan, on https://datagait.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://datagait.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: DataGait (https://datagait.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract · Map · Crawl · Enrich · Understand · Find · Answer · Watches

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Live web results, ranked for your task — with the excerpts that answer it.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations [...] Infringe on intellectual property rights [...] Scrape websites that explicitly prohibit automated access [...] Overload or disrupt our infrastructure [...] Resell or redistribute our Service without authorization [...] Access data you are not authorized to access. [...] You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to extract and process any data through our Service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 2,500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, tier "fast". Optional: queries, max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, published_after
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, excerpts, relevance score, tier, degraded, credits used

## DataGait's plans (4)

- [DataGait, free, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [DataGait, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [DataGait, $5 monthly, Subscription, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/5-monthly-subscription-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [DataGait, contact us, Custom, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/contact-us-custom-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

## DataGait's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /search`, Search, balanced: [DataGait, free, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, deep: [DataGait, free, POST /search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-deep/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`, Search, fast: [DataGait, free, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt)

## DataGait's APIs (3)

- [DataGait: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/datagait/free/llms.txt)
- [DataGait: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /enrich, Enrich, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagait/free-post-enrich-enrich-balanced/llms.txt)
- [DataGait: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /enrich, Enrich, deep](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagait/free-post-enrich-enrich-deep/llms.txt)
- [DataGait: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /enrich, Enrich, fast](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/datagait/free-post-enrich-enrich-fast/llms.txt)
- [DataGait: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/free-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt)

## DataGait: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [CrawlerData, $50 pack, Starter, GET /customsearch/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlerdata/50-pack-starter-get-customsearch-v1/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Oxylabs, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oxylabs/30-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 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 2026-11-06.

- https://datagait.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://datagait.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://datagait.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://datagait.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://datagait.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing