Ollama pricing: web search API
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Top-upWe haven't run Ollama through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan costs . We rank 569 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of Ollama's 6 plans
Call:
POST / api/ web_ search Ollama's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of Ollama's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
- A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendapi/ web_ search max_. The call returns the matching web pages.results - Who can get it: anyone 18 or older with an Ollama account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Ollama: web search API alternatives
Ollama alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans that you pay for up front. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.
| This planOllama, top-up | Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, GET /v2/search/gov | Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /broad-search | Surf, top-up from $20 | Geonode, top-up from $50 | |
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| Completeness | 17% | 17% | 33% | 17% | 17% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | $5 | $5 | $20 | $50 |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | 1 minute | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older with an Ollama account | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone | anyone with an API key from the Dashboard | anyone at least eighteen (18) years old, with legal capacity to enter into the Terms and not located in or acting for the benefit of a restricted country, region, person, or entity |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Date, not in the answer
- Author, not in the answer
- Text
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Answer, not in the answer
| Billing | pay first |
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| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 10 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Web fetch · Generate a chat message |
| Their pitch | Ollama's web search API can be used to augment models with the latest information to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | "You agree to use our services only for lawful purposes. You may not: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on the intellectual property or rights of others, Transmit harmful, offensive, or illegal content, Interfere with or disrupt our services or servers, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Use our services to develop competing products, Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble our software (except as permitted by law), Use automated means to access our services without permission" |
| Expires | 1 year after the credits are added |
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| Concurrent | 3 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: max_results |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/web_search |
| Plan | Pay as you go |
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| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older with an Ollama account |
The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold
page title, URL, page content