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Octen pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full

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 /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full 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 25,000 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /pulse-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 /pulse-search, Pulse Search, fullSearlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrapetreg, top-up from $100, Top-up of $100 to $199, +10% bonus, POST /call/treg.web.search.publicationsCeramic, $99 monthlyContext.dev, $9,500 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.20$0.20$0.20$0.20$0.317
Completeness33%17%0%17%17%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstmonthlyyearly
Pay$5$799$100$99$9,500
Enough foras many as you pay for4,000,000 callsabout 500,454 calls495,000 calls a month2,500,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 16 or over, topping up by hand (automatic top-ups earn no bonus)anyone at least 18 years of age with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms and, when using the Services on behalf of an organization, the authority to bind itanyone aged 18 or over

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/pulse-search.md
  2. docs.octen.ai/capabilities/pulse-search
  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 search10
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Broad Search · Web Search · Image Search · Video Search · News Search · Business 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 for25,000 calls, once
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: mode "standard", count, highlight.enable, highlight.max_tokens, full_content.enable "true", full_content.max_tokens, safesearch, include_images "true"
MethodPOST
Path/pulse-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

original query, page title, URL, request ID, latency, warning, number of search queries, billable full content results, billed mode, highlight, full content, author or website name, published date, last crawled date, favicon URL, cover image URL, cover image description, image URL, image description

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