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Marginalia pricing and alternatives: web search API

Marginalia's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 379 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free non-commercial one of Marginalia's 4 plans
Call: GET /search Marginalia's only call
API: Web search API Marginalia's only API

About this item

  • Live. Marginalia searches the web when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send query to GET /search. You can also send count, timeout, dc, page, nsfw and filter. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone who emails the provider for it, for non-commercial use. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Marginalia: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planMarginalia, free non-commercialContext.dev, freeContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSerpex, freeSpider Cloud, free credits, POST /search, Search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%17%50%17%17%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a monthabout 833 calls, once200 calls250 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who emails the provider for it, for non-commercial useanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per networkanyoneanyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card required

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 2026-10-28.

  1. about.marginalia-search.com
  2. about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

Product details

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

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchMarginalia isn’t seeking to replace Bing or Google, but to complement them, to provide a minority report that keeps them honest.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataFree non-commercial key and paid non-commercial key: "Provided under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0." Commercial key: "Buy a metered commercial key with no commercial usage restriction or attribution requirement." [...] "Other terms are negotiable"
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, timeout, dc, page, nsfw, filter
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree non-commercial
Who can get itanyone who emails the provider for it, for non-commercial use
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, license, URL, page title, description

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