# Gapup, pay as you go: Web search API

> Neural and keyword web search over the live web. Ranked results with title, URL, date, author, optional full text.

Gapup's x402 plan for the web search API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Gapup's docs list 3: Date, Author, Text.
We haven't run Gapup through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 798 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 25% of the 798 plans.
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mcp.gapup.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mcp.gapup.io/api/v1/call/web_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mcp.gapup.io/docs/tools/web_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Gapup (https://mcp.gapup.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Neural and keyword web search over the live web. Ranked results with title, URL, date, author, optional full text.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Authorized: legitimate AI agents, B2B integrations, security testing on owned assets, research, educational use. Prohibited: violation of applicable law, mass automated outreach without consent, circumventing rate limits, reverse-engineering for cloning, scraping catalog for competing products, fraud, mass-targeted attacks

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: args.query. Optional: args.numResults, args.type, args.category, args.includeDomains, args.excludeDomains, args.startPublishedDate, args.includeText, args.async
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/call/web_search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, publication date, author, page text

## Gapup's plans (1)

- [Gapup, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 5 minutes

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

- `POST /api/v1/call/web_search`: [Gapup, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Gapup's APIs (6)

- [Gapup: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Gapup: similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Gapup: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Gapup: keyword research API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Gapup: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Gapup: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Gapup: web search API alternatives

- [DataGait, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Croma, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/20-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Olostep, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/20-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://mcp.gapup.io/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/api/v1/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/api/v1/tools/web_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/docs/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://mcp.gapup.io/docs/tools/web_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing