glim.sh pricing: web search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run glim.sh through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 569 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/v1/web/search glim.sh's only call for this API

POST /api/v1/web/searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 100 calls.
One call. You send query to POST /api/v1/web/search. You can also send include_domains, exclude_domains and published_within_days. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

glim.sh: web search API alternatives

glim.sh alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

The table starts with glim.sh's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to glim.sh's.

	glim.sh, pay as you go	browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search	Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/web/search, Search with location	Linkup, pay as you go, x402, paid per request in USDC on Base, POST /v1/search, Search, standard, sourced answer	Z.ai, top-up
$ per 1,000 searches	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00
Completeness	0%	17%	33%	0%	33%	17%
Billing	pay as you go	pay first	pay first	monthly	pay as you go	pay first
Pay	per call	$10	$5	$30	per call	any amount
Enough for	as many as you pay for	1,000 calls	500 calls	3,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	live	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Solana or Monad, or MPP on Tempo	anyone who creates an account with an email address	anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian	anyone	anyone with a USDC wallet on Base, no account or API key needed	anyone not on an export control or sanctions list and not in Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk or Zaporizhzhia, with an account

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

Product details

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

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Author, not in the answer
Text, not in the answer
Summary, not in the answer
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Answer, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · Fetch a tweet with thread context, or a user profile · Search Reddit posts by keyword query · Fetch a Reddit post with comments, subreddit feed, or user · Fetch a web page as clean extracted content · Search GitHub repos, conversations, discussions, or code · Fetch GitHub repo metadata, files, PRs, issues, or discussions · Search Amazon product listings · Fetch Amazon product details by ASIN · Fetch a cleaned YouTube transcript · Search Telegram channels and indexed public posts · Fetch a public Telegram channel's posts or a post with comments · Search tweets (paginated) - body param is q, not query · Fetch multiple tweets by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch replies to a tweet · Fetch quote tweets of a tweet · Fetch users who retweeted a tweet · Fetch the full thread context of a tweet · Fetch the attached Twitter article of a tweet · Fetch a single tweet by id · Search Twitter user profiles by keyword · Check the follow relationship between two users · Fetch multiple users by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch a user's recent tweets · Fetch a user's mentions timeline · Fetch a user's followers · Fetch the accounts a user follows · Fetch a user's verified followers · Fetch a single user profile by @handle or id · Fetch tweets from a list · Fetch the member profiles of a Twitter list · Fetch trending topics (by WOEID) · LLM chat completion (OpenAI-compatible, streaming supported) · Anthropic Messages API compatible LLM inference (streaming supported)

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Semantic search across the open web

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	No unlawful use, and no use that violates the rights of others. Data is retrieved from publicly available sources on your behalf. You are responsible for how you use it, including compliance with the source platforms' terms and applicable law. No attempts to disrupt, overload, or reverse the service's payment gating.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	100 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: include_domains, exclude_domains, published_within_days
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/web/search

About the plan
Plan	Free credit
Who can get it	anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls

The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, excerpt