# LLMLayer, free: Web search API

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

LLMLayer's web search API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
The cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is [Ceramic, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ceramic/99-monthly/llms.txt), at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.
[Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search/llms.txt), [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) and [Valyu](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/valyu/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://llmlayer.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.llmlayer.dev/api/v2/web_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://llmlayer.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.llmlayer.ai/web-search
- Sold by: LLMLayer (https://llmlayer.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

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

## 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

## LLMLayer's plans (3)

- [LLMLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [LLMLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [LLMLayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete, live

## LLMLayer's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v2/web_search`: [LLMLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/free/llms.txt)

## LLMLayer's APIs (1)

- [LLMLayer: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/free/llms.txt)

## LLMLayer: web search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $379 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/social-fetch/379-pack/llms.txt): $1.648 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/20-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-ask/llms.txt): $2.079 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/499-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $2.303 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.llmlayer.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
- https://docs.llmlayer.ai/models-pricing
- https://docs.llmlayer.ai/rate-limits
- https://docs.llmlayer.ai/web-search
- https://llmlayer.ai/apis/web-search
- https://llmlayer.ai/pricing
- https://llmlayer.ai/privacy
- https://llmlayer.ai/terms