LLMLayer pricing and alternatives: web search API

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

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

$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 161 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.

Plan: Free credits one of LLMLayer's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/v2/web_search LLMLayer's only call

POST /api/v2/web_searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API LLMLayer's only API

Web search API

About this item

Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit once, enough for 500 calls. Credit never expires.
One call. You send query to POST /api/v2/web_search. You can also send search_type, location, recency and domain_filter. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LLMLayer: web search API alternatives

The table starts with LLMLayer's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to LLMLayer's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	LLMLayer, top-up	Oxylabs, $2,500 monthly	Nimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, lite	Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /ask	ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, deep
$ per 1,000 searches	$2.00	$1.00	$1.10	$2.079	$2.303
Completeness	17%	0%	0%	17%	33%
Billing	pay first	monthly	pay as you go	yearly	monthly
Pay	any amount	$2,500	monthly	$4,990	$499
Enough for	as many as you pay for	2,500,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for	200,000 calls a month	about 216,666 calls a month
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Services	buyers who ask for an offer ("Get an offer"), plans start at $2,500 a month	anyone who signs up	anyone	anyone with a signed-in account

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.

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, not in the answer
Summary, not in the answer
Links, not in the answer
Answer, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Answer API · Scraper API · Extract API · Crawl API · Map API · YouTube Transcript API · PDF Content API

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Six content types, forty-plus locations, real-time results — ranked, deduplicated, and returned as clean JSON your agent can act on.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"You agree NOT to use the Services to: [...] Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Engage in illegal activities or promote illegal content, Scrape websites that explicitly prohibit automated access in their terms or robots.txt, Circumvent rate limits or abuse the API infrastructure, Share, resell, or redistribute API access without written authorization, Reverse engineer, decompile, or extract source code from the Services [...] Promote violence, discrimination, or hatred, Harass, stalk, threaten, or harm others, Create or distribute malware, viruses, or malicious code, Collect personal information without proper consent, Impersonate others or misrepresent your identity [...] Make decisions about credit, employment, insurance, or benefits eligibility, Conduct background checks subject to FCRA, Support mass surveillance without proper authorization, Use for law enforcement without proper legal authority [...] Violate GDPR, CCPA, or other data protection regulations, Process personal data without proper legal basis, Scrape content in violation of website terms of service [...] Infringe on IP rights, Bypass paywalls or access control systems, Send excessive requests that degrade service performance, Attempt unauthorized access to systems or data, Security testing without permission, Use the Services to build competing products", "You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services."

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	500 calls, once
Expires	never

Rate limit
Per second	0.33

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: search_type, location, recency, domain_filter
Method	POST
Path	/api/v2/web_search

About the plan
Plan	Free credits
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Services

The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, published date, source name, image URL, thumbnail URL, image width, image height, video URL, duration, channel, price, rating, rating count, publication info, cited by, PDF URL, cost in dollars