# DeepAPI, free: Web search API

> Search the web and return ranked results with title, url, snippet, and dateText when the source reports a date, plus a direct answer when one exists.

DeepAPI's $1 starting credit plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. DeepAPI's docs list 1: Answer.
We haven't run DeepAPI through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 798 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[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 more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/deepapi/free
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://deepapi.co/v1/search/web`
- API key: with the plan, on https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DeepAPI (https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: 74 other DeepAPI calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and return ranked results with title, url, snippet, and dateText when the source reports a date, plus a direct answer when one exists.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Lawful use only. Use DeepAPI only for lawful purposes. You must comply with all laws that apply to you — including privacy, data protection, anti-spam, intellectual property, and computer misuse laws — and with any third-party terms that bind you. [...] Web data rules. DeepAPI reads only publicly available web pages, without logging in. You must not use the service, or combine it with anything else, to: access data behind a login, paywall, or other access control, or submit credentials, session cookies, or authentication tokens for any third-party site, create or use fake accounts or misrepresent your identity to any platform, bypass or attempt to bypass technical protection measures such as CAPTCHAs, login walls, IP blocks, or anti-bot systems, collect data about people to stalk, harass, dox, discriminate against, or surveil them, resell raw personal data obtained through DeepAPI as a data product, or use it in ways privacy law forbids.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1
- Enough for: about 83 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 166.67
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Idempotency-Key header, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: query, maxResults
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search/web

## About the plan

- Plan: $1 starting credit
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up and verifies their account

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, result URL, result snippet, result date, answer text, answer type, answer source title, answer source URL, generated at

## DeepAPI's plans (2)

- [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [DeepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/deepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search/web`: [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt)

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## DeepAPI: web search API alternatives

- [Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go-x402-or-mpp-paid-per-request-post-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/20-monthly/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Browserbase, $20 monthly, Developer, POST /v1/search, Web Search (Exa deep)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserbase/20-monthly-developer-post-v1-search-web-search-exa-deep/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing