Desearch pricing and alternatives: web search API

Name: Desearch web search API
Brand: Desearch
Price: 179 USD

Desearch's site llms.txt Best web search API in 2026

17% complete: 1 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: $5 in API credits for a new account one of Desearch's 7 plans

Call: GET /web Desearch's only call for this API

GET /webFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API one of Desearch's 7 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get pages from Desearch's index. Desearch doesn't say how old its data is.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit, enough for 5,000 calls.
One call. You send query to GET /web. You can also send start. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: new accounts that attach a card in Console. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Desearch: web search API alternatives

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

	Desearch, top-up	ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast	Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)	Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, base	Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant
$ per 1,000 searches	$1.00	$0.50	$1.00	$3.00	$7.00
Completeness	17%	50%	33%	17%	33%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay as you go	pay first
Pay	any amount	$10	any amount	monthly	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	20,000 calls	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars	anyone 18 or over with a payment method added	anyone who signs up

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.

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: AI Search · Extract · X Search · X Profile Search · YouTube Creator Search · LinkedIn Profile Search · TikTok Creator Search

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	This API allows users to search for any information over the web. This replicates a typical search engine experience, where users can search for any information they need.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	no limit
Use data	Your use of our APIs is subject to rate limits and usage quotas as specified in your plan. You agree not to circumvent these limits or use our APIs in ways that could harm our infrastructure or other users. [...] You agree not to use our Services for: Any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws, Harassment, abuse, or harm to others, Distributing malware or other harmful code, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Reselling our Services without authorization

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$5
Enough for	5,000 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: start
Method	GET
Path	/web

About the plan
Plan	$5 in API credits for a new account
Who can get it	new accounts that attach a card in Console

The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, cost in dollars, usage count, service, currency

Desearch pricing and alternatives: web search API

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