# Liner, top-up: Web search API

> Real-time, high-signal search delivered as structured JSON, with titles, snippets, URLs, and publication dates ready to plug into your own pipeline. Ideal for teams building their own LLM, RAG, or agentic stack on top of fresh context, without the overhead of answer generation or citation management.

Liner's web search API on its Pay-as-you-go plan. It costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), this plan scores 51.0 out of 100. Liner ranks 18th of 37 providers.
Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 73% of the 569 plans.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/liner/top-up
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://liner.com/developers/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://platform.liner.com/api/v1/tools/search/web`
- API key: with the plan, on https://liner.com/developers/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://liner.com/developers/docs/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#body-web-search
- Sold by: Liner (https://liner.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

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

## Score

- Overall score: 51.0
- Price score: 39
- Accuracy score: 49
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 90
- Performance score: 26

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scholar Search · Visualization · Web Search + Visualization · Quick Answer Agent · Search Agent · Deep Research Agent · Visual Answer Agent · Chat Completions · Responses

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time, high-signal search delivered as structured JSON, with titles, snippets, URLs, and publication dates ready to plug into your own pipeline. Ideal for teams building their own LLM, RAG, or agentic stack on top of fresh context, without the overhead of answer generation or citation management.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Subject to Customer’s compliance with these Terms, the Customer owns Outputs.", "The Customer shall not:" "Use the Services in violation of applicable laws, sanctions, or third-party rights.", "Use the Services or Outputs to develop or train competing models or services without Liner's prior written consent.", "Display advertising alongside Outputs without Liner's prior written consent.", "Misrepresent or conceal the source of Outputs.", "The Customer is responsible for complying with third-party terms and applicable laws and for the manner in which third-party content is displayed and used."

## Plan

- Expires: 6 months

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.35 s

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country_code, lang, date_range, max_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/tools/search/web

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay-as-you-go
- Who can get it: anyone with a Liner Platform account, 18 or older

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, page title, URL, hostname, favicon, snippet, published date, total results

## Liner's plans (2)

- [Liner, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/liner/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Liner, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/liner/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Liner's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/tools/search/web`: [Liner, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/liner/top-up/llms.txt)

## Liner's APIs (1)

- [Liner: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/liner/top-up/llms.txt)

## Liner: web search API alternatives

- [Desearch, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-answer/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)](https://datacircle.dev/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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://liner.com/api-terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://liner.com/developers/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://liner.com/developers/docs/quick-start?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://liner.com/developers/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://liner.com/developers/docs/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing