# Ransack, free: Web search API

> Metasearch across engines when you don't have a URL. It surfaces links for you to fetch, it does not reconcile conflicts for you.

Ransack's Trial plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Ransack's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text.
We haven't run Ransack through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 766 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. [See how many web search API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[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.
[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/ransack/free
- [Web search API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ransack.tools/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `POST https://ransack.tools/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ransack.tools/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://ransack.tools/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#ransack
- Sold by: Ransack (https://ransack.tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: ransack fetch · ransack hosts · ransack shop · ransack discover · ransack verify · youtube · search_memory · ransack_permit_search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Metasearch across engines when you don't have a URL. It surfaces links for you to fetch, it does not reconcile conflicts for you.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You retain ownership of your queries and results. Do not exceed rate limits, use for illegal purposes, resell keys, or circumvent restrictions.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day
- Expires: daily at UTC midnight

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: n/a
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", Accept header "application/json, text/event-stream", jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "ransack", params.arguments.mode "search", params.arguments.query. Optional: params.arguments.max_results, params.arguments.format, params.arguments.freshness, params.arguments.max_chars, params.arguments.max_urls, params.arguments.verbose, params.arguments.crypto, params.arguments.detail
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address, free for 14 days

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, snippet, engine, rate limit headroom

## Ransack's plans (2)

- [Ransack, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Ransack, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ransack/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `POST /mcp`: [Ransack, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt)

## Ransack's APIs (2)

- [Ransack: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt)
- [Ransack: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt)

## Ransack: 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
- [Desearch, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, stored
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-answer/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (fast)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-fast/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://ransack.tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing