# Geekflare, free: Web search API

> Live 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.

Geekflare'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. 2 are in the plan's price: Date, Text. 1 costs extra: Answer.
The cheapest of the 312 plans we rank by price is [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [ScrapingDuck](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingduck/49-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://geekflare.com/api/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.geekflare.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://geekflare.com/api/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.geekflare.com/guides/search#basic-web-search
- Sold by: Geekflare (https://geekflare.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Extra fields: page content: +$0.00 · grounded answer, answer sources, answer source title, answer source URL, answer source position: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Live 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no 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 get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: n/a
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.32 s

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", query. Optional: limit, source, format, time, location, device, category, includeDomains, excludeDomains, scrape, scrapeLimit, groundedAnswer, city
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Geekflare's plans (12)

- [Geekflare, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/10-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/50-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/100-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/200-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/19-monthly/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/69-monthly/llms.txt): $1.38 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $349 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/349-monthly/llms.txt): $0.698 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $192 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/192-yearly/llms.txt): $3.20 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $696 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/696-yearly/llms.txt): $1.16 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $3,492 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/3492-yearly/llms.txt): $0.582 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Geekflare, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

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

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

## Geekflare's APIs (3)

- [Geekflare: web search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/free/llms.txt)
- [Geekflare: SERP API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/geekflare/free/llms.txt)
- [Geekflare: cached company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /brand, Brand](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/geekflare/free-free-post-brand-brand/llms.txt)
- [Geekflare: cached company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /brand, Brand, full](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-enrichment-apis/geekflare/free-free-post-brand-brand-full/llms.txt)

## Geekflare: web search API alternatives

- [CrawlerData, $1,250 pack, Scale, POST /v1/openwebui/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlerdata/1250-pack-scale-post-v1-openwebui-search/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/990-yearly-professional-annual-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.55 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Serpex, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.65 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 2026-10-28.

- https://docs.geekflare.com/api-credit-mapping.md
- https://docs.geekflare.com/best-practices.md
- https://docs.geekflare.com/credit-exhausted.md
- https://docs.geekflare.com/endpoint/search.md
- https://docs.geekflare.com/guides/search.md
- https://docs.geekflare.com/intro.md
- https://geekflare.com/api/pricing
- https://geekflare.com/lp/search-api/
- https://geekflare.com/terms/