# GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, answer: Web search API

> One API for every search engine your agent calls.

GroundRoute's web search API on its BYOK plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text, Answer.
You get up to 77,760,000 calls a month.
We rank 379 plans by price. [Octen's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [ContextFetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-basic/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-answer
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://groundroute.ai/docs/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.groundroute.ai/v1/search`, Search, answer
- API key: with the plan, on https://groundroute.ai/docs/pricing
- Its API docs: https://groundroute.ai/docs/search-api
- Sold by: GroundRoute (https://groundroute.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, web · Search, news · Search, academic · Search, page

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One API for every search engine your agent calls.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Search results originate from third-party Search Providers and are subject to their rights and terms, GroundRoute makes no claim of ownership over them and grants no rights beyond passing them through to you. You are responsible for how you use returned results. You agree not to use the Service to: violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, or any Search Provider's terms, send queries or fetch content for unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful purposes, circumvent rate limits, quotas, billing, or access controls, or share access to evade metering, attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other customers' data, or our infrastructure, scrape, resell, or redistribute the Service in a way that competes with GroundRoute as a routing layer without our written consent, introduce malware, or use the Service to facilitate denial-of-service, mass surveillance, or harassment

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 77,760,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 30
- Concurrent: 30
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, mode "answer", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: max_results, freshness, domains, exclude_domains, lang, country
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: BYOK
- Who can get it: anyone who supplies their own engine API keys

## The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, tenant ID, URL, page title, snippet, page content, relevance score, source engine, published date, position, answer, citation URL, citation title, citation index, degraded, routing strategy, query class, chosen engine, routing reason, routing candidates, provider cost, latency, failover engine, missing engines, cache tier, poolable, poolability reason, freshness bucket, private cache key, pooled cache key, cached at, TTL, cost avoided, similarity, quality score, quality components, judge sampled, engine agreement, account ID, API key ID, timestamp, billable, searches counted, provider key source

## GroundRoute's plans (2)

- [GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-answer/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 3 hours
- [GroundRoute, top-up, Managed, POST /v1/search, Search, answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/top-up-managed-post-v1-search-search-answer/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 3 hours

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

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, academic: [GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, academic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-academic/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, answer: [GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-answer/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, page: [GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, page](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-page/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, web: [GroundRoute, free, BYOK, POST /v1/search, Search, web](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-web/llms.txt)

## GroundRoute's APIs (2)

- [GroundRoute: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/groundroute/free/llms.txt)
- [GroundRoute: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/groundroute/free-byok-post-v1-search-search-answer/llms.txt)

## GroundRoute: web search API alternatives

- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, GET /v2/search/developer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard-get-v2-search-developer/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, 1 day
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-search-search-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/500-monthly-growth-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://groundroute.ai
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/byok
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/caching
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/errors-and-limits
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/pricing
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/routing-and-policies
- https://groundroute.ai/docs/search-api
- https://groundroute.ai/terms