# NestDaddy, free, GET /api/v1/search: Web search API

> Pages from NestDaddy's own web index, cleaned of duplicates, with fresh news on top for time-sensitive questions.

NestDaddy's Free plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. NestDaddy's docs list 3: Date, Text, Answer.
We haven't run NestDaddy through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 864 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.774 or less per 1,000 searches. [287 web search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) [ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/free-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt) has a free plan with 200 calls a month. ScrapeNest is the best web search API in our benchmark.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Scrape.land's rate limit allows. [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, and costs more up front than Scrape.land's $19 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/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-search
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://nestdaddy.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://nestdaddy.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://nestdaddy.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://nestdaddy.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: NestDaddy (https://nestdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Pages from NestDaddy's own web index, cleaned of duplicates, with fresh news on top for time-sensitive questions.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Each API key issued by NestDaddy is licensed solely for your own personal or business use. You may integrate the API into your own applications and products, subject to the following restrictions: No Reselling: You may not resell, sublicense, redistribute, or otherwise grant third parties direct access to your API key or to NestDaddy's API endpoints as a standalone service. No White-labeling without authorization: You may not rebrand or package NestDaddy's API as your own API product and sell access to it. No Sharing: You may not share your API key with individuals or organizations outside of your own team or company. Fair Use: High-volume or automated usage that exceeds normal usage patterns may be throttled or suspended. [...] If you use our APIs, you must comply with our API usage policies, including rate limits, attribution requirements, and acceptable use guidelines.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: at the start of each billing cycle

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, sort, lang, news, external
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, result count, page title, URL, snippet, domain, language, published date, result type, relevance score, answer, quota used, quota limit, quota remaining

## NestDaddy's plans (9)

- [NestDaddy, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, free, All-in-One free trial](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/free-all-in-one-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $9.99 monthly, All-in-One Starter](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/9-99-monthly-all-in-one-starter/llms.txt): $0.999 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $9.99 monthly, Starter](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/9-99-monthly-starter/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $29 monthly, All-in-One Pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/29-monthly-all-in-one-pro/llms.txt): $0.58 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $29 monthly, Growth](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/29-monthly-growth/llms.txt): $0.29 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $99 monthly, All-in-One Scale](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/99-monthly-all-in-one-scale/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, $99 monthly, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/99-monthly-pro/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [NestDaddy, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

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

- `GET /api/v1/search`: [NestDaddy, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt)

## NestDaddy's APIs (3)

- [NestDaddy Web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nestdaddy/free/llms.txt)
- [NestDaddy Web search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [NestDaddy News API pricing, 11 plans, GET /api/v1/news/local](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-news-local/llms.txt)
- [NestDaddy News API pricing, 11 plans, GET /api/v1/news/financial](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-news-financial/llms.txt)
- [NestDaddy News API pricing, 11 plans, GET /api/v1/news/global](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-news-global/llms.txt)
- [NestDaddy News API pricing, 11 plans, GET /api/v1/news/tech](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/nestdaddy/free-get-api-v1-news-tech/llms.txt)

## NestDaddy: web search API alternatives

[NestDaddy alternatives: other web search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/nestdaddy-alternatives.txt)

We list NestDaddy's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to NestDaddy in price per 1,000 searches. We also show the RouterGrowth plan. Its price is farther from the price of NestDaddy's cheapest paid plan.

- [NestDaddy, $99 monthly, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nestdaddy/99-monthly-pro/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [RouterGrowth, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/routergrowth/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $79 monthly, Pro Max, GET /webs-search, Web Search API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/79-monthly-pro-max-get-webs-search-web-search-api-full/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Searlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/799-pack-enterprise-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search-full/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Ceramic, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ceramic/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-12.

- https://nestdaddy.com/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://nestdaddy.com/apis/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://nestdaddy.com/apis/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://nestdaddy.com/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://nestdaddy.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://nestdaddy.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing