Kimi pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/tools/search

Kimi's site llms.txt Best web search API in 2026

17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$2.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 334 plans we rank by price cost $3.125 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is cheaper than 64% of the 334 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Tier0 one of Kimi's 7 plans

Call: POST /v1/tools/search one of Kimi's 2 calls for this API

API: Web search API one of Kimi's 2 APIs

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Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
A balance you top up. You pay $1 or more. You spend all of it on calls. $1 is enough for 500 calls.
One call. You send text_query to POST /v1/tools/search. You can also send timeout_seconds, limit and include_content. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Kimi: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

	This planKimi, top-up from $1, Tier0, POST /v1/tools/search	Context.dev, $20 monthly	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale, POST /v2/search	Geekflare, $50 pack	LLMLayer, top-up
$ per 1,000 searches	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00
Completeness	17%	17%	33%	50%	33%
Billing	pay first	monthly	pay first	pay first	pay first
Pay	$1	$20	$5	$50	any amount
Enough for	500 calls	10,000 calls a month	2,500 calls	25,000 calls	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	live	unknown	live	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old or the minimum age required by their country to consent to such use (an enterprise account needs authorization from the business), and not the subject of any trade restrictions, sanctions, or other legal or regulatory restrictions	anyone aged 18 or over	anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Services

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$2.00
Per	call
Billing	pay first

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	20
Also pays for	from the same budget: Web Search Pro · URL Fetch · Chat Completions API · Responses API · Messages API · Create Batch

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Run a web search and get a list of structured results with title, snippet, site, and URL. Ideal for agent applications that orchestrate their own search logic.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	This license allows you to use Moonshot AI’s application programming interfaces (“APIs”) to integrate the Services into your own applications, products, or Services (each referred to as a “Customer Application”) and to offer those Customer Applications to End Users. [...] You are solely responsible for content and we do not claim ownership of it. [...] We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, support, and improve the Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and keep the Services safe and secure. [...] Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, Customer Content may be used for the foregoing purposes. [...] (3) You must not use any output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them. [...] In using the Services, you must comply with all applicable laws as well as our documentation, guidelines, or policies we make available to you. For example, you will not, and will not permit End Users to: 3.1 Use the Services for any illegal or improper purposes or activities that violate applicable laws and regulations, harm the legitimate rights or interests of us or anyone [...] 3.2 Engage in the following activities that endanger network security, operational security or create risks of the Services: [...] (5) For developing, serving, or creating applications, products, Services, or models that have potential competitive possibilities with the Services without authorization. (6) Copying, transferring, renting, lending, selling, or providing sub-licensing or re-licensing of the Services in whole or in part without authorization. [...] 3.4 Use the Services to: [...] (3) Evaluate or classify individuals based on their social behavior or personal traits leading to detrimental or unfavorable treatment. [...] (9) Use any method to extract data from the Services other than as permitted through the APIs, or buy, sell, or transfer API keys from, to or with a third party.

Plan
Pay	$1
You get	$1
Enough for	500 calls

Rate limit
Per second	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	text_query. Optional: timeout_seconds, limit, include_content
Method	POST
Path	/v1/tools/search

About the plan
Plan	Tier0
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old or the minimum age required by their country to consent to such use (an enterprise account needs authorization from the business), and not the subject of any trade restrictions, sanctions, or other legal or regulatory restrictions

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, site name, result date, source authority, site icon URL, MIME type, page content

Kimi pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/tools/search

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