Linkup pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /v1/search, Search, standard

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

$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.

Plan: Free credits one of Linkup's 5 plans

Call: POST /v1/search, Search, standard one of Linkup's 6 calls

API: Web search API Linkup's only API

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
Nothing to pay. You get $20 of credit a month, enough for 4,000 calls.
One call. You send q to POST /v1/search. You set depth to "standard" and outputType to "searchResults". You can also send includeDomains, excludeDomains, fromDate, toDate, maxResults and includeImages. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

The table starts with Linkup's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Linkup's.

	Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, standard	Tavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basic	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard
$ per 1,000 searches	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00
Completeness	17%	17%	17%
Billing	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	any amount	$500	$5
Enough for	as many as you pay for	100,000 calls a month	1,000 calls
Freshness	unknown	live	unknown
Who can get it	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the company	anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian

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.

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Fetch · Research · Tasks · Extract

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Web search built for AI applications. Get sourced, cited answers with full-text snippets from across the web. Fast, accurate, and grounded in real data from trusted sources.

Data
Keep data	Open Web Content: "retain Open Web Content for as long as is necessary for the purposes of text and data mining only", Answers: no limit set
Use data	Answers: "a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide right to use, reproduce and modify Answers, for its internal needs and/or for its end-users’ internal needs", "not authorized to use, including to provide or to resell, the Answers for any purpose other than strictly specified above", Open Web Content: "only within the limits of the text and data mining exception provided for in Article 3 and Article 4 of EU Copyright Directive 2019/790", "not authorized to use, including to distribute, Open Web Content for any purpose other than strictly specified above"

Rate limit
Per second	10

The call
You send	q, depth "standard", outputType "searchResults". Optional: includeDomains, excludeDomains, fromDate, toDate, maxResults, includeImages
Method	POST
Path	/v1/search

About the plan
Plan	Free credits
Who can get it	anyone signing up with a professional email address, $20 of credit on sign-up and eligible accounts topped up back to $20 each month

The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, text, favicon, result type