Grounder Web search API pricing: POST /
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POST / one of Grounder's 4 calls for this APIGET /Free$0.00 per 1,000compat/ brave/ res/ v1/ web/ search POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000compat/ claude-desktop/ search POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000compat/ tavily/ search
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Date, Text.
- Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a day.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You set thev1/ search Content-Typeheader to "application/json". 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 /v1/search | Arch Tools, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/tools/web-search | CrawlForge, $19 monthly | AnyCap, $30 pack, Standard, Structured search | Databar, $99 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $19.00 | $18.48 | $19.00 | $19.048 | $19.80 |
| Completeness | 33% | 17% | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | monthly | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $5 | $99 | $19 | $30 | $99 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | about 5,357 calls a month | 1,000 calls a month | 1,575 calls | 5,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified | anyone aged 18 or over with a valid email address | anyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Service | anyone | businesses, 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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Date
- Author, not in the answer
- Text
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Answer, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 100 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Tavily request format · Brave request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (news) · Search (image-search) · Search (video-search) · Search (page-text) |
| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| 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. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| 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. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 50 requests a day |
| Enough for | 50 calls a day |
| Per second | 2 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: top_k, filters.domains, filters.recency, filters.language, filters.publisher_ids, filters.article_types, filters.temporal_sensitivity, include_text, text_max_chars, requested_provider, providers, realtime, routing_settings, workspace, features, urls, context.user_location, context.user_time_zone |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified |
The 61 fields the plan's answer can hold
search query, request ID, workspace, root query ID, URL, domain, canonical URL, page title, text, summary, section heading, published date, relevance score, rank, article type, temporal sensitivity, language, provider, found by, licensed, publisher ID, publisher name, publisher domain, promoted, result features, licensed basis, result ID, features, routing policy, provider call provider, provider call status, provider call latency, provider call result count, provider call mode, provider call results requested, provider call unique result count, provider call fresh result count, provider call cost units, provider call cost unit, provider call features, live data call provider, live data call status, live data call latency, live data call result count, live data call mode, live data call results requested, live data call unique result count, live data call fresh result count, live data call cost units, live data call cost unit, live data call features, citation request, unread URL, unread reason, latency, cached, licensed result count, cost in dollars, response count, historical count known, counting started at