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Geekflare pricing and alternatives: web search API

Geekflare's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
50% complete: 3 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 312 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and ScrapingDuck are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Geekflare's 12 plans
Call: POST /search Geekflare's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Geekflare's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. 2 are in the plan's price: Date, Text. 1 costs extra: Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 250 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Geekflare: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Geekflare's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Geekflare's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Geekflare, $3,492 yearlyCrawlerData, $1,250 pack, Scale, POST /v1/openwebui/searchSearch1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /search, SearchContext.dev, $300 monthlySerpex, top-up from $50
$ per 1,000 searches$0.582$0.50$0.55$0.60$0.65
Completeness50%17%33%17%17%
Billingyearlypay firstyearlymonthlypay first
Pay$3,492$1,250$990$300$50
Enough for500,000 calls a month2,500,000 calls150,000 calls a month500,000 calls a month76,923 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or older using it for a business or professionanyoneanyone aged 18 or overanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.geekflare.com/api-credit-mapping.md
  2. docs.geekflare.com/best-practices.md
  3. docs.geekflare.com/credit-exhausted.md
  4. docs.geekflare.com/endpoint/search.md
  5. docs.geekflare.com/guides/search.md
  6. docs.geekflare.com/intro.md
  7. geekflare.com/api/pricing
  8. geekflare.com/lp/search-api/
  9. geekflare.com/terms/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answercosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Extra fieldspage content: +$0.00 · grounded answer, answer sources, answer source title, answer source URL, answer source position: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Web Scraping · Meta Scraping · Brand · Screenshot · PDF Generator · DNS Records · Load Time · Site Status · URL Redirection Checker · TLS Scan · Ping · Port Scanner · Broken Link Checker · Lighthouse · SERP Results
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLive web search for your AI apps. Web, news and image results as JSON or Markdown, with full page content or a grounded answer in the same request.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"These Terms permit you to use the Services for your personal or internal business use only." "[...] a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable license to use the API to develop applications that interface with our Services." "You agree not to: Use the API to create a product or service that competes directly with Geekflare. Use the API in a manner that, in our sole discretion, constitutes abuse or excessively frequent calls. Obscure or hide your application's identity when using the API." "You must not use the Services, or allow anyone else to use the Services, to: [...] Send unsolicited bulk messages, phishing, or any other form of spam, or harvest contact details for that purpose. [...] Collect, process, or resell personal data unlawfully, including special category data as defined by the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR. [...] Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services, or use them to build a product that competes directly with Geekflare."
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough for250 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrentn/a
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.32 s
The call
You sendContent-Type header "application/json", query. Optional: limit, source, format, time, location, device, category, includeDomains, excludeDomains, scrape, scrapeLimit, groundedAnswer, city
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

timestamp, success, status code, search parameters, results returned, test ID, position, page title, URL, snippet, published date, thumbnail URL, image title, image URL, image source URL, image width, image height, results as Markdown or HTML

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