# Firecrawl, free, Free, GET /v2/search/gov: Web search API

> Search primary law and regulatory material from US federal, state, and local government sources: statutes, regulations, codes, court opinions, and other government publications.

Firecrawl's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
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.
The cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is [Ceramic, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ceramic/99-monthly/llms.txt), at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.
[Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search/llms.txt), [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) and [Valyu](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/valyu/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search/gov`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/gov-search
- Sold by: Firecrawl (https://www.firecrawl.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search primary law and regulatory material from US federal, state, and local government sources: statutes, regulations, codes, court opinions, and other government publications.

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 get: 1,000 credits a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: k, jurisdiction, court, courtType, cites, domain
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/search/gov

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Firecrawl's plans (14)

- [Firecrawl, free, Free, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $19 monthly, Hobby, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/19-monthly-hobby-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $99 monthly, Standard, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/99-monthly-standard-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $399 monthly, Growth, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly-growth-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $749 monthly, Scale, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/749-monthly-scale-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $190 yearly, Hobby, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/190-yearly-hobby-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $990 yearly, Standard, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/990-yearly-standard-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly, Growth, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/3990-yearly-growth-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/7190-yearly-scale-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete

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

- `POST /v2/search`: [Firecrawl, free, Free, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/search/gov`: [Firecrawl, free, Free, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl's APIs (2)

- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: cached web search API pricing, 14 plans, GET /v2/search/developer](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-developer/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: cached web search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, free, Free, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/free-free-post-ask/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Valyu, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/valyu/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Nimble, free, Free, POST /v2/search, Search, lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nimble/free-free-post-v2-search-search-lite/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Jina, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/jina/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/gov-search
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/articles/claude/legal-research
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service