# Firecrawl, free: Web search API

> Used to perform web searches and optionally retrieve content from the results.

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: Date.
The cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is [Firecrawl, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly/llms.txt), at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free
- Get it: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/search
- Sold by: Firecrawl (https://www.firecrawl.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Used to perform web searches and optionally retrieve content from the results.

## 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
- Enough for: 500 calls a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 2

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, sources, domainTools, toolDetail, categories, includeDomains, excludeDomains, tbs, location, country, safe, timeout, ignoreInvalidURLs, highlights, enterprise, threatProtection, scrapeOptions
- 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 13 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

## Firecrawl's plans (14)

- [Firecrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/19-monthly/llms.txt): $7.60 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.98 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly/llms.txt): $1.596 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $749 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/749-monthly/llms.txt): $1.498 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/190-yearly/llms.txt): $6.333 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/990-yearly/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $3,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/3990-yearly/llms.txt): $1.33 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/7190-yearly/llms.txt): $1.198 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

## Firecrawl's calls for this API (1)

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

## Firecrawl's APIs (2)

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

## Firecrawl: web search API alternatives

- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/500-monthly-growth-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% 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