# fastCRW, free, POST /v1/search, Search, full: Web search API

> Search the web and get full page content back. Multi-engine, structured results.

fastCRW's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
The cheapest of the 326 plans we rank by price is [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/free-free-post-v1-search-search-full
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fastcrw.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/search`, Search, full
- API key: with the plan, on https://fastcrw.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.fastcrw.com/search
- Sold by: fastCRW (https://fastcrw.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Extract

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and get full page content back. Multi-engine, structured results.

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 get: 500 credits
- Enough for: about 22 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## fastCRW's plans (14)

- [fastCRW, free, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/free-free-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $9 pack, Hobby top-up, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/9-pack-hobby-top-up-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $198.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $47 pack, Standard top-up, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/47-pack-standard-top-up-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $29.48 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $177 pack, Growth top-up, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/177-pack-growth-top-up-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $22.22 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $299 pack, Scale top-up, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/299-pack-scale-top-up-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $13.20 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $13 monthly, Hobby, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/13-monthly-hobby-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $57.20 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $69 monthly, Standard, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/69-monthly-standard-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $15.18 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $279 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/279-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $12.276 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $549 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/549-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $12.078 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $132 yearly, Hobby, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/132-yearly-hobby-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $48.40 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $708 yearly, Standard, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/708-yearly-standard-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $12.98 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $2,844 yearly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/2844-yearly-growth-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $10.428 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, $5,604 yearly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/5604-yearly-scale-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): $10.274 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [fastCRW, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt): 33% complete

## fastCRW's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search: [fastCRW, free, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/free-free-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, full: [fastCRW, free, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/free-free-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt)

## fastCRW's APIs (2)

- [fastCRW: web scraping API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fastcrw/free/llms.txt)
- [fastCRW: web search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/free-free-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt)

## fastCRW: web search API alternatives

- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, pay as you go, MPP](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/pay-as-you-go-mpp/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Linkup, pay as you go, x402, paid per request in USDC on Base, POST /v1/search, Search, standard, structured](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request-in-usdc-on-base-post-v1-search-search-standard-structured/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Keenable, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 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 2026-10-28.

- https://docs.fastcrw.com/credit-costs
- https://docs.fastcrw.com/openapi.json
- https://docs.fastcrw.com/rate-limits
- https://docs.fastcrw.com/search
- https://fastcrw.com
- https://fastcrw.com/pricing
- https://fastcrw.com/pricing.md
- https://fastcrw.com/terms