Expand pricing: web search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Expand through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 583 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.99 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Expand's 3 plans
Call:
POST / Expand's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of Expand's 2 APIs
- Web search API
- Web scraping API
POST /v1/ fetch - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ fetch/ json - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ fetch/ batched
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
- Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits, enough for about 6,666 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 365 days.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendv1/ search maxResults. The call returns the matching web pages. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Expand: web search API alternatives
Expand alternatives: other web search API providers by price
The table starts with Expand's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Expand's. We also show the Scrapall plan. Its price is farther from the price of Expand's cheapest paid plan.
| Expand, top-up from $1 | Zhipu, top-up, Prepaid balance (充值), POST /paas/v4/web_search, Search-Std | Firecrawl, $749 monthly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search | Social Fetch, $225 monthly | Scrapingdog, $900 yearly | Scrapall, $45 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1.50 | $1.496 | $1.498 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $1.667 |
| Completeness | 0% | 33% | 33% | 17% | 0% | 17% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | monthly | monthly | yearly | pay first |
| Pay | $1 | any amount | $749 | $225 | $900 | $45 |
| Enough for | about 666 calls | as many as you pay for | 500,000 calls a month | 150,000 calls a month | 50,000 calls a month | 27,000 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | live | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over able to form a binding contract, for business and professional use | anyone with a real-name verified (经实名认证) Zhipu Open Platform account, paid services are not open to users under 18 | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
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, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Answer, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 10 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Fetch · Fetch JSON Mode · Start Batched Fetch · Snapshot Highlights · Crawl |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Send a question and get back the pages on the web most relevant to it, ranked, each with its title and an excerpt, for 1.5 credits. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | 3.1 Public web content only. The Services are designed and intended solely for accessing content that is publicly accessible without authentication. Content remains publicly accessible for this purpose when a website places a CAPTCHA, bot check, or similar bot-mitigation measure in front of it, and the Services may automatically complete such measures when accessing that content. You may not use the Services to access, retrieve, capture, or process content that is behind a login, authentication wall, paywall, or other access control that limits it to authorized users [...] 3.2 Prohibited uses. You may not use the Services, or permit the Services to be used, to: (a) violate any applicable law, including computer misuse, anti-circumvention, privacy, data protection, consumer protection, export control, and intellectual property laws, (b) collect, aggregate, or infer sensitive personal information (such as health, financial, biometric, or precise geolocation data, government identifiers, or information about children), or build profiles of individuals for surveillance, stalking, harassment, discrimination, or eligibility decisions subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar laws, (c) send unsolicited communications or engage in other abusive conduct toward target websites or third parties, (d) generate request volumes against a target website that are designed to, or that you know are likely to, degrade or disrupt that website, (e) capture credentials, session tokens, cookies, or authenticated user data, (f) infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property or other rights of any person, or (g) transmit malicious code or harmful content. We may publish an acceptable use policy in the Documentation that provides further detail consistent with this Section 3, in the event of a conflict, this Section 3 controls. 3.4 Restrictions on the Services. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not, and may not permit any third party to: (a) sell, resell, sublicense, or otherwise redistribute raw access to the Services or the API (as distinct from providing Output within your own products and services), (b) modify, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services, Iris, the API, or our dashboard, or attempt to derive the source code, models, model weights, or training data of any of them, (c) use the Services to develop a product or service that competes with the Services, or use Output for the purpose of building or training a web data extraction service that competes with the Services, (d) circumvent or attempt to circumvent metering, usage limits, credentials, or other technical restrictions of the Services, (e) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or the systems of Expand or its suppliers, or (f) remove or obscure any proprietary notices in the Services or the Documentation. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 10,000 credits |
| Enough for | about 6,666 calls |
| Expires | 365 days |
| Concurrent | 2 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: maxResults |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over able to form a binding contract, for business and professional use |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
search ID, query, URL, page title, excerpt, score