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Kakao pricing: web search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 511 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 3 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 511 plans.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free quotas Kakao's only plan
Call: GET /v2/search/web Kakao's only call
API: Web search API Kakao's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30,000 requests a day.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v2/search/web. You can also send sort, page and size. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Kakao: web search API alternatives

Kakao alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

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This planKakao, freebrowserfoundry by keirolabs, free, POST /api/v2/deepContext.dev, freeExa, free, Starter, POST /search, SearchDesearch, freeJigsawStack, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%33%17%100%17%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for30,000 calls a day150 calls1,000 pages a monthabout 1,428 calls a month5,000 callsnot published
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownstoredunknown
Who can get itKakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Serviceanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyone not in a U.S.-embargoed country or on a U.S. restricted-party list, the monthly credits on a user's first team onlynew accounts that attach a card in Consoleanyone who includes the JigsawStack badge on their website footer

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. developers.kakao.com/docs/en/daum-search/common
  2. developers.kakao.com/docs/en/daum-search/dev-guide
  3. developers.kakao.com/docs/en/getting-started/quota
  4. developers.kakao.com/terms/en/site-policies

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • 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 search2,500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search video · Search image · Search blog · Search book · Search cafe
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Daum Search API provides a function to search for a wide range of web documents, videos, images, blogs, books, and Cafe posts on the portal site Daum.
Data
Keep dataCache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data
Use dataBesides the violations and examples of violations specified in this Agreement, you shall not allow any third party, including your end user, to conduct any of the following activities. [...] Sell, trade or resell Kakao Platform Services for unauthorized commercial purposes [...] Cache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data [...] Copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, input into a search engine or directory, or otherwise use or provide to others any information (e.g., data, secret key, access token, etc.) obtained through the Service or Kakao Developers without prior approval from Kakao, provided, however, that, such information may be shared with agents under a confidentiality agreement [...] Use the service in excess of the provision limit outlined in Article 6 (e.g., daily quota, monthly quota, MAU limit), provided, however, that the daily quota may be exceeded when using paid services
Plan
Pay$0
You get30,000 requests a day
Enough for30,000 calls a day
Rate limit
Per day30,000
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: sort, page, size
MethodGET
Path/v2/search/web
About the plan
PlanFree quotas
Who can get itKakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Service
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, pageable results, is last page, title, content excerpt, URL, document creation time

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