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Diffbot pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /api/v1/web_search

Diffbot's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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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, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Diffbot's 5 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/web_search one of Diffbot's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Diffbot's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits a month, enough for 10,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the monthly refresh, no rollover.
  • One call. You send text to POST /api/v1/web_search. You can also send size and maxTokens. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone 13 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Diffbot: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Diffbot's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Diffbot's.

Diffbot, $899 monthly, Plus, POST /api/v1/web_searchScrapingdog, $4,000 monthlySpider Cloud, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 or more (+12% credits), POST /search, SearchContext.dev, $90 monthlyContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /v1/answer
$ per 1,000 searches$0.899$0.889$0.893$0.90$0.909
Completeness17%0%17%17%67%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$899$4,000$2,000$90$100
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month4,500,000 calls a month2,240,000 calls100,000 calls a month110,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone 13 or overanyoneanyoneanyone aged 18 or overanyone

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. diffbot.com
  2. diffbot.com/company/privacy
  3. diffbot.com/company/terms
  4. diffbot.com/docs/credits
  5. diffbot.com/docs/dql/concepts/origin
  6. diffbot.com/docs/dql/faq/data-sourcing
  7. diffbot.com/docs/rate-limits
  8. diffbot.com/docs/web-search/
  9. diffbot.com/docs/web-search/post
  10. diffbot.com/pricing
  11. diffbot.com/products/knowledge-graph
  12. diffbot.com/technology

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • 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: Analyze (Extract API) · Article (Extract API) · Product (Extract API) · Image (Extract API) · Video (Extract API) · Discussion (Extract API) · Event (Extract API) · List (Extract API) · Job (Extract API) · Extract with Custom API · Run a Web Search (GET) · Process Text · Search with DQL (GET) · Search with DQL (POST) · Enhance (GET) · Enhance (POST) · Combine · Create a Bulkjob
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDiffbot maintains the largest independently crawled web index outside of Google and Bing (>150TB). The Web Search API allows for fast querying of this index.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataUSE RESTRICTIONS [...] You agree that you will not: sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share, or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party (However, you may display and use the facts generated by the Service as part of a commercial application.), use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities, use the Service to attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group, use another user’s account without permission, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Site or Service, modify, adapt or hack the Service to, or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks, use the API or the Data in any manner that violates the rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or rights of publicity, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service, bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Site or Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Site or Service or harvest or manipulate data, or publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser, computer, or mobile device.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 credits a month
Enough for10,000 calls a month
Expiresat the monthly refresh, no rollover
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendtext. Optional: size, maxTokens
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/web_search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 13 or over
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, page title, URL, highlight, relevance score, published date, search time

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