# Ollama, top-up: Web search API

> Ollama's web search API can be used to augment models with the latest information to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.

Ollama's web search API on its Pay as you go plan. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run Ollama through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/top-up
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ollama.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://ollama.com/api/web_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ollama.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.ollama.com/capabilities/web-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#web-search-api
- Sold by: Ollama (https://ollama.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web fetch · Generate a chat message

## In their words

- Their pitch: Ollama's web search API can be used to augment models with the latest information to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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"

## Plan

- Expires: 1 year after the credits are added

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 3
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: max_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/web_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- 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

## Ollama's plans (6)

- [Ollama, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/top-up/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Ollama, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/20-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Ollama, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/100-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Ollama, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/500-monthly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Ollama, $200 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/200-yearly/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Ollama, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

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

- `POST /api/web_search`: [Ollama, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/top-up/llms.txt)

## Ollama's APIs (2)

- [Ollama: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ollama/top-up/llms.txt)
- [Ollama: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ollama/top-up/llms.txt)

## Ollama: web search API alternatives

- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, GET /v2/search/gov](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby-get-v2-search-gov/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /broad-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-broad-search/llms.txt): 33% complete, 1 minute
- [Surf, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/surf/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): 17% complete
- [Geonode, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geonode/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.ollama.com/api/cloud-usage.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.ollama.com/capabilities/web-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.ollama.com/capabilities/web-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ollama.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ollama.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing