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Keenable pricing and alternatives: web search API

Keenable's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 161 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Free one of Keenable's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/search one of Keenable's 4 calls
API: Web search API Keenable's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Keenable: web search API alternatives

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

Keenable, contact usSearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /news, NewsContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/findSimilarPerplexity, top-up, Prepaid credits, POST /search, Fast SearchOxylabs, $30 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness17%17%33%17%0%
Billingcontactpay firstpay firstpay firstmonthly
Paynot published$5$10any amount$30
Enough fornot publishedas many as you pay for10,000 callsas many as you pay for30,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownlive
Who can get itAI labs and inference platformsanyoneanyoneanyone using it on behalf of an organization, paying by credit card (its terms bind "the organization on whose behalf you are accessing or using the Services")anyone

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

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.

  1. docs.keenable.ai/api-reference/search
  2. docs.keenable.ai/authentication
  3. docs.keenable.ai/credits
  4. docs.keenable.ai/rate-limits
  5. keenable.ai/pricing
  6. keenable.ai/terms
  7. zeroclick.keenable.ai/llms.txt

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, 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 search50
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Fetch
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchKeenable is independent web search for AI agents, built on its own crawler, index and ranking.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Keenable hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to (i) download and use the API solely to receive certain data [...] and (ii) to use the API Output solely for your internal business purposes, but not (other than as permitted herein) for resale, sublicensing, or standalone distribution. [...] In addition to all other use restrictions set forth herein, you may not, nor may you assist any other person to: (a) install, download, distribute or otherwise use the API or the API Output for any purpose other than as expressly set forth in this Section, (b) use the API or the API Output for any illegal purposes, (c) except as expressly permitted herein, repackage the API Output in any exported or application programming interface form (including without limitation CSV, XML or JSON), (d) use the API or the API Output in any manner that competes with Keenable, (e) use the API or the API Output in any manner that violates the rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or rights of publicity, (f) copy, rent, lease, sell, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile (except to the limited extent expressly authorized by applicable statutory law), modify or alter any part of the API or API Output, or (g) distribute or otherwise disclose the API Output to any third parties on a standalone basis. Keenable reserves the right to limit the number and/or frequency of API requests in its sole discretion.", "You agree to not use the Service to: [...] provide to any third party the results of any benchmark tests of the Service"
Plan
Pay$0
You get100,000 requests a month
Enough for100,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second10
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: mode, site, acquired_after, acquired_before, published_after, published_before, query_time, snippet_max_length, max_results
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express consent of a parent or guardian, but no one working for a company developing an AI-powered web index
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, search mode, page title, URL, description, snippet, published date, indexed date

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