# Oassis, free: Web search API

> Search the web with Exa's index. A query instead of a url, for when you do not know where to look.

Oassis's web search API on its Verified account plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Oassis's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text.
We haven't run Oassis through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 730 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. [See how many web search API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/free
- [Web search API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://oassis.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.oassis.dev/web/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://oassis.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.oassis.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Oassis (https://oassis.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Read a page or a document · List a site's urls · Read a list of urls · Follow a site's links and read it · Open a browser session · Act on an open browser session · Start a research task

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web with Exa's index. A query instead of a url, for when you do not know where to look.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must have the right to access what you ask for. You are responsible for complying with the terms, licences and access rules of the sites you point us at, and for any law that applies to you or to that content. [...] No circumvention. Do not use oassis to defeat a paywall, a login, a rate limit, a block or any other access control, or to collect personal data unlawfully. No overwhelming anybody. Including us. Crawls and batches exist so that volume is paced and paid for, do not route around them.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 285 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, snippets, domains, excludeDomains, since
- Method: POST
- Path: /web/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Verified account
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet

## Oassis's plans (8)

- [Oassis, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/5-pack/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/20-pack/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/50-pack/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/5-monthly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/20-monthly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Oassis, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/50-monthly/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `POST /web/v1/search`: [Oassis, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/free/llms.txt)

## Oassis's APIs (2)

- [Oassis: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/oassis/free/llms.txt)
- [Oassis: web scraping API pricing, 9 plans, POST /web/v1/scrape, Web Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/oassis/free-keyless-mcp-trial-post-web-v1-scrape-web-scrape/llms.txt)
- [Oassis: web scraping API pricing, 9 plans, POST /web/v1/scrape, Web Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/oassis/free-keyless-mcp-trial-post-web-v1-scrape-web-scrape-full/llms.txt)

## Oassis: web search API alternatives

- [Spidra, $35 pack, 5,000 credit top-up, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spidra/35-pack-5000-credit-top-up-post-search-search/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/pay-as-you-go-x402-or-mpp-paid-per-request-post-search-search/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web-full/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [ScrapeNest, top-up, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search/deep, Deep Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-deep-deep-search-full/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.oassis.dev/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.oassis.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://oassis.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://oassis.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://oassis.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://oassis.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://oassis.dev/web-scraping-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing