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LangSearch pricing and alternatives: web search API

LangSearch's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 260 plans we rank by price cost $3.212 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 1 other tie for the lowest price of the 260 plans.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan LangSearch's only plan
Call: POST /v1/web-search LangSearch's only call
API: Web search API LangSearch's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. LangSearch limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/web-search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send count, freshness, includeDomains, excludeDomains, contents.text and contents.text.maxCharacters. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LangSearch: web search API alternatives

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

This planLangSearch, freeContext.dev, freeSerpex, freeSearch1API, free, Free, POST /askSpider Cloud, free, credits, POST /search, SearchJina, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%17%17%33%17%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a month200 calls20 calls, once250 calls1,000 calls
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone legally permitted to enter into a binding contract, at 18 or with a parent's or guardian's consentanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyoneanyoneanyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card requiredanyone, for professional use only ("No consumer use is intended or directed")

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.langsearch.com/api/web-search-api
  2. docs.langsearch.com/limits/api-limits
  3. docs.langsearch.com/reference/search-api-guide
  4. docs.langsearch.com/resources/faq
  5. langsearch.com
  6. langsearch.com/pricing
  7. langsearch.com/terms-of-service

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
  • 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 fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind relevant sources. Bring usable context into every answer.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"LangSearch grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Web Search API solely for the purposes specified in these Terms. Any other use is prohibited without prior written consent from LangSearch." [...] "Prohibited Use [...] Scraping, mining, or harvesting data from LangSearch Services. Interfering with or disrupting the functionality of LangSearch Services. Engaging in activities that could harm LangSearch’s reputation or business operations."
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: count, freshness, includeDomains, excludeDomains, contents.text, contents.text.maxCharacters
MethodPOST
Path/v1/web-search
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone legally permitted to enter into a binding contract, at 18 or with a parent's or guardian's consent
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

response code, log ID, message, response type, original query, web search URL, some results removed, result ID, page title, URL, display URL, snippet, published date, text, input tokens, output tokens

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