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fastCRW pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/search, Search, full

fastCRW's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 326 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of fastCRW's 14 plans
Call: POST /v1/search, Search, full one of fastCRW's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of fastCRW's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits once, enough for about 22 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json" and scrapeOptions.formats to "markdown". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a fastCRW account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

fastCRW: web search API alternatives

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

fastCRW, $5,604 yearly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, fullFirecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/searchYou.com, pay as you go, MPPLinkup, pay as you go, x402, paid per request in USDC on Base, POST /v1/search, Search, standard, structuredKeenable, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 searches$10.274$10.00$10.00$10.00$10.00
Completeness33%33%33%33%33%
Billingyearlypay firstpay as you gopay as you gopay as you go
Pay$5,604$5per callper callper call
Enough forabout 45,454 calls a month500 callsas many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Who can get itanyone with a fastCRW accountanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone with a funded wallet (USDC on Tempo): no You.com account, no API keyanyone with a USDC wallet on Base, no account or API key neededanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express consent of a parent or guardian, but no one working for a company developing an AI-powered web index, with a wallet holding USDC on Base, not in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine

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 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.fastcrw.com/credit-costs
  2. docs.fastcrw.com/openapi.json
  3. docs.fastcrw.com/rate-limits
  4. docs.fastcrw.com/search
  5. fastcrw.com
  6. fastcrw.com/pricing
  7. fastcrw.com/pricing.md
  8. fastcrw.com/terms

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
  • 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
Most per search20
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Extract
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the web and get full page content back. Multi-engine, structured results.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"You retain ownership of any data you extract using the Service, subject to the intellectual property rights of the original content owners. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of extracted data complies with applicable laws and the rights of third parties.", "You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. You shall not use the Service to:" "Crawl or scrape websites in violation of their terms of service or robots.txt directives", "Collect personal data without proper legal basis or consent", "Engage in any activity that constitutes harassment, abuse, or harm to others", "Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, network, or data", "Distribute malware, spam, or any harmful content", "Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure", "Resell, redistribute, or sublicense access to the Service without authorization", "Use the Service for competitive intelligence gathering against fastCRW", "Harvest child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any other content whose collection, possession, or distribution is illegal under applicable law", "Target login-walled or authenticated-only content that the caller is not authorized to access"
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough forabout 22 calls, once
Rate limit
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, Content-Type header "application/json", scrapeOptions.formats "markdown". Optional: limit, lang, tbs, sources, categories, scrapeOptions.onlyMainContent, scrapeOptions.timeout, summarizeResults, answer, answerTopN, maxCharsPerSource, maxContentChars, summaryPrompt, answerPrompt, answerTemperature, queryExpandVariants, multiRound, answerListFormat, llmApiKey, llmProvider, llmModel, baseUrl
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a fastCRW account
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page title, snippet, position, score, category, published date, image URL, thumbnail URL, page content

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