# Octen, free, Free, POST /business-search: Web search API

> Octen 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.

Octen's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author.
The cheapest of the 260 plans we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-search-search-full/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://octen.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.octen.ai/business-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://octen.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/business-search
- Sold by: Octen (https://octen.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Octen 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 data: 24 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 data: your 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 for: 1,000 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /business-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Octen's plans (6)

- [Octen, free, Free, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-business-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Octen, $2,099 monthly, Builder, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/2099-monthly-builder-post-business-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Octen, $13,999 monthly, Pro, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/13999-monthly-pro-post-business-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Octen, $33,999 monthly, Max, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/33999-monthly-max-post-business-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Octen, contact us, Enterprise, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/contact-us-enterprise-post-business-search/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Octen's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /business-search`: [Octen, free, Free, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /pulse-search`, Pulse Search: [Octen, free, Free, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /pulse-search`, Pulse Search, full: [Octen, free, Free, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search-full/llms.txt)

## Octen's APIs (2)

- [Octen: cached web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /broad-search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-broad-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: cached web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /news-search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-news-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: cached web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search](https://datacircle.dev/cached-web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search/llms.txt)

## Octen: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [You.com, pay as you go, x402](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/you-com/pay-as-you-go-x402/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/business-search.md
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/business-search.md
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search
- https://docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits
- https://octen.ai/pricing
- https://octen.ai/terms-of-service