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

Firecrawl's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 379 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Firecrawl's 14 plans
Call: GET /v2/search/developer one of Firecrawl's 4 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Firecrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get pages from Firecrawl's index.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 500 calls. Unused credits expire at the end of the month.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v2/search/developer. 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

The table starts with Firecrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Firecrawl's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, GET /v2/search/developerNimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, liteGeekflare, $696 yearlyThunderbit, $72 monthly, Pro, POST /search, Search and DistillDataBlue, $319 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.198$1.10$1.16$1.20$1.329
Completeness17%17%50%50%33%
Billingyearlypay as you goyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$7,190monthly$696$72$319
Enough for500,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for50,000 calls a month60,000 calls a month20,000 calls a month
Freshness1 daylivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone who signs upanyoneanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greateranyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service

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/developer-search
  2. docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/v2-openapi.json
  3. docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
  4. firecrawl.dev/developer-index
  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 forfrom the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search · Search with Content Scraping
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitch70M+ docs, READMEs, issues, and merged pull requests in one index, with the highest recall of any coding-specific index.
Data
Freshness1 day
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
Enough for500 calls a month
Expiresend of the month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: k, types, repos, sources, skills, passages, language, topic, license, min_stars, max_stars, archived, fork
MethodGET
Path/v2/search/developer
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 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

result ID, result type, URL, page title, matched passages, coverage, reranked, repository index status, source index status

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