# Geonode, free: Web search API

> Search the web and retrieve results using Geonode's Search API.

Geonode'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: Text.
We rank 457 plans by price. [browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/29-99-monthly-essential-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/free
- [Best web search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://geonode.com/pricing/scraper-api
- Request: `POST https://scraper.geonode.io/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://geonode.com/pricing/scraper-api
- Its API docs: https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/v1/search/start-search-job
- Sold by: Geonode (https://geonode.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract Webpage Content · Start a Batch Job · Start a crawl job

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and retrieve results using Geonode's Search API.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not use the Services or any Data Scraper output as the sole basis for decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning individuals, including decisions relating to credit, lending, employment, housing, insurance, healthcare, education, eligibility, identity verification, law enforcement, immigration, or other regulated or high-risk decisions. [...] You must not use the Services to collect, scrape, process, store, disclose, sell, or otherwise use personal data unless you have the rights, permissions, lawful bases, notices, and safeguards required by applicable law. You must not use the Services to: [...] use personal data or outputs in violation of applicable data-protection, privacy, marketing, or communications laws. [...] You are responsible for reviewing, validating, and lawfully using Data Scraper outputs. The Company does not grant you any right to third-party content

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,500 requests a month
- Expires: monthly, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: locale, page, safe, time_range
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free plan
- Who can get it: anyone at least eighteen (18) years old, with legal capacity to enter into the Terms and not located in or acting for the benefit of a restricted country, region, person, or entity

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

position, title, URL, snippet, thumbnail, displayed URL, source host, job ID, query, page, attempts, query suggestions, spelling correction

## Geonode's plans (18)

- [Geonode, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/100-pack/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $125](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-125/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $460](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-460/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $1,260](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-1260/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $2,000](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-2000/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $3.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/3-90-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $15.50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/15-50-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $62.50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/62-50-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $230 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/230-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $630 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/630-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $1,000 monthly, Unlimited plans, 25 threads](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/1000-monthly-unlimited-plans-25-threads/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete
- [Geonode, $1,000 monthly, Per-request plans, 5,000,000 requests](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/1000-monthly-per-request-plans-5000000-requests/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, $1,749 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/1749-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete
- [Geonode, $3,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/3199-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete
- [Geonode, $5,799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/5799-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 17% complete
- [Geonode, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [Geonode, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/free/llms.txt)

## Geonode's APIs (2)

- [Geonode: web search API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/free/llms.txt)
- [Geonode: web scraping API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v1/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/geonode/free-plan-post-v1-extract/llms.txt)
- [Geonode: web scraping API pricing, 18 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/geonode/free-plan-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)

## Geonode: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry, free, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/free-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Desearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-answer/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-10-31.

- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/products/web-data/pricing
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/products/web-data/search
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/guides/search/01_search_overview
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/guides/search/04_understanding_search_results
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/guides/search/05_pagination_and_filters
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/v1/authentication
- https://docs.geonode.com/docs/scraper-api/v1/search/start-search-job
- https://geonode.com/acceptable-use-policy
- https://geonode.com/pricing/scraper-api
- https://geonode.com/pricing/scraper-api.md
- https://geonode.com/terms-and-conditions