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Octen pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /business-search

Octen's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Octen's 6 plans
Call: POST /business-search one of Octen's 3 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Octen's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit once, enough for 1,000 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /business-search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Octen: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Octen's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Octen's.

Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /business-searchSearch1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /askFirecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, POST /v2/searchYou.com, pay as you go, x402Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, standard
$ per 1,000 searches$5.00$5.00$5.00$5.00$5.00
Completeness33%33%33%33%17%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay as you gopay first
Pay$5$5$5per callany amount
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for1,000 callsas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyone with a funded wallet (USDC on Base or Solana): no You.com account, no API keyanyone

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 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.octen.ai/api-reference/business-search.md
  2. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/business-search.md
  3. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search
  4. docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing
  5. docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits
  6. octen.ai/pricing
  7. octen.ai/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Date
  • Author
  • Text, not in the answer
  • 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
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Pulse Search · Broad Search · Web Search · Image Search · Video Search · News Search · Place Search · Extract · Embedding · VL Embedding · Answer · Deep Research · Grounded Generation · Auto Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOcten Web Search searches the live web and returns ranked results with query-relevant highlights and optional full content, ready for a model to ground its answers on.
Data
Keep data24 hours: a cache to improve your application's performance may not persist longer, no permanent storing, archiving or database of the output built as a substitute for its services
Use datayour internal business purposes or integration into your applications as its documentation permits, no competing search engine or AI model developed or trained on it, no resale, lease, sublicense or distribution of the services without its written consent, Octen may name you and show your logo as a customer
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough for1,000 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_basis, time_range, start_time, end_time, language, highlight.enable, highlight.max_tokens, full_content.enable, full_content.max_tokens, entities.enable, entities.count, entities.max_activities, entities.max_news
MethodPOST
Path/business-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 60 fields the plan's answer can hold

original query, page title, URL, highlight, full content, author or website name, published date, last crawled date, favicon URL, cover image URL, cover image description, image URL, image description, request ID, latency, warning, number of search queries, billable full content results, entity type, entity name, entity summary, entity aliases, entity website, entity LinkedIn URL, entity stock ticker, entity SEC CIK, entity industry, entity HQ location, entity founded year, entity employee range, entity revenue, entity net income, entity gross profit, entity financial period, entity financial currency, entity stock price, entity stock change today, entity stock 52-week high, entity stock 52-week low, entity stock price date, entity stock currency, entity funding round, entity funding amount, entity funding date, entity funding lead investors, entity funding currency, entity monthly web visits, entity web traffic rank, entity web traffic period, entity key person name, entity key person title, entity logo URL, entity current position, entity career organization, entity career title, entity career start, entity career end, entity photo URL, entity activities, entity news

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