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Firecrawl pricing and alternatives: web search API, GET /v2/search/gov

Firecrawl's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is Ceramic, $99 monthly, at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.Search1API, Firecrawl and Valyu are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: GET /v2/search/gov one of Firecrawl's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Firecrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, which pay for Firecrawl's other calls. This call costs none of them. Firecrawl limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v2/search/gov. You can also send k, jurisdiction, court, courtType, cites and domain. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Firecrawl: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planFirecrawl, free, Free, GET /v2/search/govSearch1API, free, Free, POST /askValyu, freeNimble, free, Free, POST /v2/search, Search, liteJina, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%33%67%17%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published20 calls, once3,200 calls5,000 calls1,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyoneanyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreementanyone who signs upanyone, for professional use only ("No consumer use is intended or directed")

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. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/gov-search
  2. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json
  3. docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
  4. firecrawl.dev/articles/claude/legal-research
  5. firecrawl.dev/pricing
  6. firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
  7. firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service

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
  • 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 search100
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch primary law and regulatory material from US federal, state, and local government sources: statutes, regulations, codes, court opinions, and other government publications.
Data
Keep datano retention period is set for what the API answers, "Reproduce any portion of the Services in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement or otherwise in writing by our authorized agent", "If there is a conflict between this Agreement and an Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement, the applicable Order Form or Enterprise Data Provider Agreement shall govern", data supplied by a third-party provider through the Services is under that provider's own terms
Use data"The following are prohibited activities under this Agreement: [...] Use the Services for any commercial purposes except as expressly authorized by Firecrawl, [...] Modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services in any manner [...], [...] Employing the Services in association with debt collection, Employing the Services for hard background check purposes, Employing the Services to determine eligibility for a government license, Employing the Services for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, including the GDPR or CCPA, Using our Services to benefit any government agency operating as an intelligence agency whose purpose is to collect and analyze data on people, Any evidentiary purpose related to law enforcement or criminal prosecution, Using or reselling Services in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act"
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: k, jurisdiction, court, courtType, cites, domain
MethodGET
Path/v2/search/gov
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

position, page title, URL, description

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