# Grounder, free, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search: Web search API

> A web search API and MCP server for AI agents. Already on Tavily or Brave? Swap the base URL and key, keep your code.

Grounder's Free plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Grounder's docs list 2: Date, Text.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), the best plan from Grounder scores 42.1 out of 100. Grounder ranks 50th of 83 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 864 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.774 or less per 1,000 searches. [287 web search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) [ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/free-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt) has a free plan with 200 calls a month. ScrapeNest is the best web search API in our benchmark.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Scrape.land's rate limit allows. [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, and costs more up front than Scrape.land's $19 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/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.grounder.net/compat/brave/res/v1/web/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://grounder.net/guides/migrate-from-brave-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Grounder (https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Tavily request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (news) · Search (image-search) · Search (video-search) · Search (page-text)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A web search API and MCP server for AI agents. Already on Tavily or Brave? Swap the base URL and key, keep your code.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don't use Grounder to: break the law, or infringe or violate anyone's rights, get around the free allowance, rate limits or other limits, including by opening extra accounts, resell or redistribute access to the service, or offer its results as a search service of your own, without our written permission, disrupt, overload or attack the service, or test its security without our permission, work out how Grounder decides where a search goes, or build a competing router with it, send searches that break a search provider's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: count, freshness, search_lang, X-Grounder-Workspace header
- Method: GET
- Path: /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

result type, original query, page title, URL, description, language, family friendly, page age, URL metadata, source profile, provider, found by, licensed, rank, publisher name, provider call provider, provider call status, features, workspace, search time, cost in dollars, citation request

## Grounder's plans (2)

- [Grounder, free, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Grounder, top-up from $5, Credit, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5-credit-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Grounder's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search`: [Grounder, free, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /compat/claude-desktop/search`: [Grounder, free, POST /compat/claude-desktop/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-claude-desktop-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`: [Grounder, free, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /compat/tavily/search`: [Grounder, free, POST /compat/tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-tavily-search/llms.txt)

## Grounder's APIs (5)

- [Grounder Image search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder News API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Video search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt)

## Grounder: web search API alternatives

[Grounder alternatives: every web search API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/grounder-alternatives.txt)

We list Grounder's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Grounder in price per 1,000 searches.

- [Grounder, top-up from $5, Credit, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5-credit-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Arch Tools, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/tools/web-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/arch-tools/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-tools-web-search/llms.txt): $18.48 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlforge/19-monthly/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AnyCap, $30 pack, Standard, Structured search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycap/30-pack-standard-structured-search/llms.txt): $19.048 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Databar, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/databar/99-monthly/llms.txt): $19.80 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Sources

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

- https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/drop-in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/guides/migrate-from-brave-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/guides/migrate-from-tavily?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing