# Firecrawl, free, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping: Web search API

> Search and retrieve content from the search results in one operation.

Firecrawl's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text, Links.
We rank 379 plans by price. [Octen's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [ContextFetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-basic/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search`, Search with Content Scraping
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search#search-with-content-scraping
- Sold by: Firecrawl (https://www.firecrawl.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid, no fixed price

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search · Search the Developer Index

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search and retrieve content from the search results in one operation.

## Data

- Freshness: 2 days
- 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
- Enough for: about 83 calls a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 21.23 s

## The call

- You send: query, scrapeOptions.formats. Optional: limit, sources, domainTools, toolDetail, categories, includeDomains, excludeDomains, tbs, location, country, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, highlights, enterprise, threatProtection
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/search

## 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 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, credits used, warning, position, page title, URL, description, category, snippet, published date, image URL, image width, image height, page markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, screenshot, audio, video, source URL, status code, page count, total pages, scrape error

## Firecrawl's plans (14)

- [Firecrawl, free, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $19 monthly, Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/19-monthly-hobby-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $45.60 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $99 monthly, Standard, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/99-monthly-standard-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $11.88 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $399 monthly, Growth, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly-growth-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $9.576 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $749 monthly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/749-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $8.988 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $190 yearly, Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/190-yearly-hobby-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $38.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $990 yearly, Standard, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/990-yearly-standard-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $9.90 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/3990-yearly-growth-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $7.98 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/7190-yearly-scale-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): $7.19 per 1,000, 50% complete, 2 days
- [Firecrawl, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/contact-us-enterprise-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt): 50% complete, 2 days

## Firecrawl's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /v2/search`, Search: [Firecrawl, free, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/search/developer`: [Firecrawl, free, GET /v2/search/developer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-get-v2-search-developer/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/search/gov`: [Firecrawl, free, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-free-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/search`, Search with Content Scraping: [Firecrawl, free, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl's APIs (2)

- [Firecrawl: web scraping API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Firecrawl: web search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /v2/search, Search with Content Scraping](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free-post-v2-search-search-with-content-scraping/llms.txt)

## Firecrawl: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-full/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/100-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tako/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v3-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Tavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/30-monthly-project-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## 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/search
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/scrape
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/search
- https://docs.firecrawl.dev/rate-limits
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/terms-of-service