# Olostep, free: Web search API

> Search the web with natural language and get structured links — Olostep’s AI search API.

Olostep's web search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
The cheapest of the 334 plans we rank by price is [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/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 [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.olostep.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.olostep.com/v1/searches`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.olostep.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.olostep.com/api-reference/searches/create
- Sold by: Olostep (https://www.olostep.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create Scrape · Create Batch · Create Crawl · Create Map · Create Answer

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web with natural language and get structured links — Olostep’s AI search API.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will use the Services only in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and only for the use cases you have disclosed to us (if applicable). [...] The following are prohibited activities under this Agreement: Use the Services for any commercial purposes except as expressly authorized by Olostep, Reproduce any portion of the Services in any form or by any means, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, Modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Services in any manner, Use the Services for any unlawful activities or in violation of any laws, regulations, or contractual provisions, Use the Services to promote violence, degradation, subjugation, discrimination or hatred against individuals or groups, Access another's account without permission, Decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the Services, Use the Services for debt collection purposes, Use the Services for hard background check purposes, Use the Services to determine eligibility for a government license, Use the Services for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, including the GDPR or CCPA, Use our Services to benefit any government agency operating as an intelligence agency whose purpose is to collect and analyze data on people, Use the Services for any evidentiary purpose related to law enforcement or criminal prosecution without proper authorization, Use or resell Services in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Scrape websites that explicitly prohibit automated access in their terms of service or robots.txt files, Overload or attempt to disrupt target websites or our infrastructure

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: storage.expires_in, limit, include_domains, exclude_domains, fast_mode, scrape_options.formats, scrape_options.remove_css_selectors, scrape_options.timeout
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/searches

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority), or 13 or older with a parent's or guardian's permission

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, created at, metadata, query, credits consumed, page title, URL, snippet, hosted JSON URL, storage expiry, size exceeded, JSON content

## Olostep's plans (8)

- [Olostep, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/20-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/200-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/1000-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/9-monthly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.475 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/399-monthly/llms.txt): $1.995 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Olostep, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/searches`: [Olostep, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)

## Olostep's APIs (7)

- [Olostep: SERP API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: company discovery API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: company funding API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: people search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)
- [Olostep: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/free/llms.txt)

## Olostep: web search API alternatives

- [Context.dev, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/20-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/50-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [LLMLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/llmlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-ask/llms.txt): $2.079 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://docs.olostep.com
- https://docs.olostep.com/api-reference/searches/create
- https://docs.olostep.com/features/search
- https://www.olostep.com/apis/company-data-api
- https://www.olostep.com/pricing
- https://www.olostep.com/terms