# PennyRegWatch, pay as you go: Web search API

> Default low-cost current-web search for fresh facts, documentation, research, and ranked sources.

PennyRegWatch's x402 pay per call plan for the web search API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. PennyRegWatch's docs list 2: Date, Text.
We haven't run PennyRegWatch through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 791 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 73% of the 791 plans.
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/pennyregwatch/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://pennyregwatch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://pennyregwatch.com/v1/search/lite`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://pennyregwatch.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#/default/search_the_web_lite_get
- Sold by: PennyRegWatch (https://pennyregwatch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 5
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Default low-cost current-web search for fresh facts, documentation, research, and ranked sources.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not misuse the service, attempt unauthorized access, interfere with operation, or use PennyAPI as the sole basis for decisions where law requires additional process or verification.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search/lite

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet (x402)

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, position, page title, URL, snippet, source domain, published date, retrieved at

## PennyRegWatch's plans (1)

- [PennyRegWatch, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/pennyregwatch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/search/lite`: [PennyRegWatch, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/pennyregwatch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PennyRegWatch's APIs (2)

- [PennyRegWatch: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pennyregwatch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PennyRegWatch: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/pennyregwatch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PennyRegWatch: web search API alternatives

- [DataGait, $5 monthly, Subscription, POST /search, Search, fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/5-monthly-subscription-post-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://pennyregwatch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://pennyregwatch.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://pennyregwatch.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://pennyregwatch.com/skill.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://pennyregwatch.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing