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Grounder Web search API pricing: POST /compat/claude-desktop/search

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our web search API benchmark, 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. ScrapeNest 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 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 costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.Levirge's $29 monthly plan covers any number of searches, and costs more up front than Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan.ScrapeNest, Clawifi and Desearch are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Grounder plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Grounder's 2 plans
Call: POST /compat/claude-desktop/search one of Grounder's 4 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Grounder's 5 APIs

About this item

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  • 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a day.
  • One call. You send q to POST /compat/claude-desktop/search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send the X-Grounder-Workspace header. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Grounder: web search API alternatives

Grounder alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

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

Grounder, top-up from $5, Credit, POST /compat/claude-desktop/searchArch Tools, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/tools/web-searchCrawlForge, $19 monthlyAnyCap, $30 pack, Standard, Structured searchDatabar, $99 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$19.00$18.48$19.00$19.048$19.80
Completeness17%17%33%0%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$5$99$19$30$99
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 5,357 calls a month1,000 calls a month1,575 calls5,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verifiedanyone aged 18 or over with a valid email addressanyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyonebusinesses, universities and other organizations, not consumers

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.

  1. grounder.net
  2. grounder.net/docs/api
  3. grounder.net/docs/api/errors
  4. grounder.net/docs/api/search
  5. grounder.net/docs/drop-in
  6. grounder.net/guides/migrate-from-brave-search-api
  7. grounder.net/guides/migrate-from-tavily
  8. grounder.net/openapi.json
  9. grounder.net/pricing
  10. grounder.net/terms

Product details

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  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search10
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Tavily request format · Brave request format · 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 pitchA 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 datano limit
Use dataDon'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 get50 requests a day
Enough for50 calls a day
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.61 s
The call
You sendq, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: X-Grounder-Workspace header
MethodPOST
Path/compat/claude-desktop/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet

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