# Quercle, free, POST /v1/search: Web search API

> Search the web and return an AI-synthesized answer from the retrieved results.

Quercle's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns none of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
We haven't run Quercle through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. 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/quercle/free-post-v1-search
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://quercle.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.quercle.dev/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://quercle.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://quercle.dev/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Quercle (https://quercle.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Raw Search · Fetch · Raw Fetch · Extract

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and return an AI-synthesized answer from the retrieved results.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You retain ownership of any content you process through our Service. We do not claim any intellectual property rights over the content you fetch or search results you generate. You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any laws or regulations, Collect personal information without consent, Engage in any activity that could harm, disable, or impair our servers, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any systems, Use the Service for spam, phishing, or malicious purposes, Redistribute or resell the Service without authorization, Circumvent rate limits or usage restrictions

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 10 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: allowed_domains, blocked_domains
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old or with parental consent

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

synthesized answer

## Quercle's plans (4)

- [Quercle, free, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Quercle, $5 pack, Starter, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/5-pack-starter-post-v1-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Quercle, $19 pack, Pro, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/19-pack-pro-post-v1-search/llms.txt): $4.75 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Quercle, $350 pack, Scale, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/350-pack-scale-post-v1-search/llms.txt): $4.375 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Quercle's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/raw_search`: [Quercle, free, POST /v1/raw_search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-raw-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`: [Quercle, free, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)

## Quercle's APIs (2)

- [Quercle: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-extract/llms.txt)
- [Quercle: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-fetch/llms.txt)
- [Quercle: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/raw_fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-raw-fetch/llms.txt)
- [Quercle: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quercle/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)

## Quercle: web search API alternatives

- [CrawlForge, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlforge/990-yearly/llms.txt): $4.125 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $99.99 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $4.444 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Staan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search for AI API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/staan/pay-as-you-go-pay-for-what-you-use-post-search-web-web-search-for-ai-api/llms.txt): $4.501 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/19-monthly-basic-post-search-search-full/llms.txt): $4.56 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 2026-11-05.

- https://quercle.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://quercle.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://quercle.dev/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://quercle.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing