# Keenable, free, Free: Cached web search API

> Keenable is independent web search for AI agents, built on its own crawler, index and ranking.

Keenable's cached web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
The cheapest of the 68 plans we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Exa](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt), [Parallel](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt) and [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) are the best cached web search API providers in our benchmark.

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

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## 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: Fetch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Keenable is independent web search for AI agents, built on its own crawler, index and ranking.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no 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 get: 100,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 100,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: mode, site, acquired_after, acquired_before, published_after, published_before, query_time, snippet_max_length, max_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Keenable's plans (6)

- [Keenable, free, Free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Keenable, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Keenable, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/top-up/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Keenable, top-up from $0.50](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/top-up-from-0-50/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Keenable, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/contact-us/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored

## Keenable's calls (4)

- `POST /v1/search`: [Keenable, free, Free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search/public`: [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/x402/search`: [Keenable, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/zeroclick/search`: [Keenable, top-up from $0.50](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/top-up-from-0-50/llms.txt)

## Keenable's APIs (1)

- [Keenable: cached web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/keenable/free-free/llms.txt)

## Keenable: cached web search API alternatives

- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Diffbot, $899 monthly, Plus, POST /api/v1/web_search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/diffbot/899-monthly-plus-post-api-v1-web-search/llms.txt): $0.899 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored

## 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://docs.keenable.ai/api-reference/search
- https://docs.keenable.ai/authentication
- https://docs.keenable.ai/credits
- https://docs.keenable.ai/rate-limits
- https://keenable.ai/pricing
- https://keenable.ai/terms
- https://zeroclick.keenable.ai/llms.txt