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

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

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

$3.00per 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 50% 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_pro 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 about 333 calls.
One call. You send text_query to POST /v1/tools/search_pro. You can also send timeout_seconds, limit, sites, time_window.start and time_window.end. 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_pro	Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search and crawl	ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, deep	Anakin, $100 monthly, Scale	browserfoundry, $30 pack, Growth Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast
$ per 1,000 searches	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
Completeness	17%	17%	50%	33%	33%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	$1	$1	$10	$100	$30
Enough for	about 333 calls	about 333 calls	about 3,333 calls	about 33,333 calls a month	10,000 calls
Freshness	unknown	live	live	unknown	unknown
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	anyone	anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use	anyone who creates an account with an email address

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$3.00
Per	call
Billing	pay first

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

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

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	On top of Web Search Basic, this endpoint lets you restrict results to specific sites with sites (multiple sites are OR’d, up to 5), constrain the time range with time_window, and return structured content chunks (chunks) for each result. Ideal for retrieval scenarios that require control over sources and freshness.

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	about 333 calls

Rate limit
Per second	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	text_query. Optional: timeout_seconds, limit, sites, time_window.start, time_window.end
Method	POST
Path	/v1/tools/search_pro

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 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, site name, result date, source authority, site icon URL, MIME type, content chunks, chunk relevance score

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

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