# ManyLives, free: Web search API

> Use when you need to find pages on the live web: search the live web: the most relevant pages for a query (title, URL, short snippet), best first, plus a short answer drawn only from those pages when the query is a question.

ManyLives's Free trial plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ManyLives's docs list 2: Text, Answer.
You get up to 90 calls a month.
We haven't run ManyLives through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 832 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/manylives/free
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.manylives.me/paid?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.manylives.me/paid/web/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://manylives.me/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ManyLives (https://manylives.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 156 other ManyLives calls: 3 free calls a day in total per caller

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use when you need to find pages on the live web: search the live web: the most relevant pages for a query (title, URL, short snippet), best first, plus a short answer drawn only from those pages when the query is a question.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must: [...] not attack, overload, scrape at abusive rates, reverse-engineer for misuse, or try to bypass security, signing, rate limits or the contact-detail rules, [...] comply with all laws that apply to you and your agents, including privacy, consumer, export and intellectual property laws

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 90 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: max, site
- Method: GET
- Path: /paid/web/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, with no wallet or payment, for up to 3 free calls a day in total per caller, while the day's shared trial allowance lasts (a request with ?trial=1 or the X-Trial: 1 header)

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, answer, title, URL, snippet, searched at

## ManyLives's plans (2)

- [ManyLives, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ManyLives, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/manylives/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## ManyLives's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /paid/web/search`: [ManyLives, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt)

## ManyLives's APIs (5)

- [ManyLives: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/manylives/free/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, POST /paid/web/contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/manylives/free-trial-post-paid-web-contents/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /paid/web/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/manylives/free-trial-get-paid-web-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ManyLives: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /paid/web/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/manylives/free-trial-get-paid-web-read/llms.txt)

## ManyLives: web search API alternatives

- [AlterLab, $100 pack, Deposit $100, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, Google or Bing, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/100-pack-deposit-100-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web-google-or-bing-full/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Browserbase, $20 monthly, Developer, POST /v1/search, Web Search (Exa fast)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserbase/20-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ClawFetch.ai, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawfetch-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AnyCap, $10 pack, Starter, Structured search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycap/10-pack-starter-structured-search/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://api.manylives.me/paid?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.manylives.me/try?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://manylives.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://manylives.me/api/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://manylives.me/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://manylives.me/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing