# Hydrafetch, free: Web search API

> Search the web and get ranked results, optionally with each page read as clean data.

Hydrafetch's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Hydrafetch's docs list 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Text. 1 costs extra: Links.
We haven't run Hydrafetch through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hydrafetch.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.hydrafetch.com/v1/web/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://hydrafetch.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.hydrafetch.com/endpoints/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Hydrafetch (https://hydrafetch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓ costs more

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 15
- Extra fields: page markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, structured data: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Map · Crawl · Batch · News · Extract · Brand · Styleguide · Logo as JSON · Screenshot · Images · Jobs search · Hiring changes

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and get ranked results, optionally with each page read as clean data.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use the service lawfully and responsibly. In particular, you must not: direct the service at content you do not have the right to access or collect, or use it to circumvent access controls such as authentication or paywalls, collect personal data without a lawful basis, or use outputs in ways that violate privacy, data-protection, or other applicable laws, infringe third-party intellectual-property rights in your use of fetched content, use the service to harass, defraud, or harm others, or to distribute malware or unlawful content, resell raw access to the service without our written agreement, or attempt to probe, disrupt, or overload our systems.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls, once
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, scrapeResults, scrapeOptions.formats, scrapeOptions.onlyMainContent, scrapeOptions.includeTags, scrapeOptions.excludeTags, scrapeOptions.removeBase64Images, scrapeOptions.blockAds, scrapeOptions.includeLinks, scrapeOptions.waitFor, scrapeOptions.timeout, scrapeOptions.location.country, scrapeOptions.location.languages, scrapeOptions.headers, scrapeOptions.preferStructure, scrapeOptions.maxAge, timeRange, country, includeDomains, excludeDomains
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/web/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, status, title, URL, snippet, rank

## Hydrafetch's plans (7)

- [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.267 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.817 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.495 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, $219 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/219-monthly/llms.txt): $0.438 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/399-monthly/llms.txt): $0.399 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Hydrafetch, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Hydrafetch's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/web/search`: [Hydrafetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt)

## Hydrafetch's APIs (5)

- [Hydrafetch: job postings API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: news API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: web search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hydrafetch/free/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hydrafetch/free-post-v1-web-batch/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hydrafetch/free-post-v1-web-extract/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hydrafetch/free-post-v1-web-scrape/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/web/brand](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/hydrafetch/free-get-v1-web-brand/llms.txt)
- [Hydrafetch: company enrichment API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/brand](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/hydrafetch/free-post-v1-web-brand/llms.txt)

## Hydrafetch: web search API alternatives

- [ContextFetch, $199 monthly, Startup, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/199-monthly-startup-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-ultra-fast/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Searlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/29-99-pack-builder-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.416 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.hydrafetch.com/concepts/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.hydrafetch.com/endpoints/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://hydrafetch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://hydrafetch.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://hydrafetch.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://hydrafetch.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing