ReadFetch pricing: web search API
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$5.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ReadFetch through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 712 plans we rank by price cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 38% of the 712 plans.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay per call ReadFetch's only plan
Call:
POST / v1/ search ReadFetch's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of ReadFetch's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call for 1 request.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You set thev1/ search Content-Typeheader to "application/json". You can also sendlimit,langandtbs. The call returns the matching web pages. - Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
ReadFetch: web search API alternatives
ReadFetch alternatives: other web search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planReadFetch, pay as you go | Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, POST /v2/search, Search | Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (advanced) | Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask | Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/web/search, Search | pure.md, pay as you go | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 33% | 33% | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $5 | any amount | $5 | $30 | monthly |
| Enough for | 1 call | 1,000 calls | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 6,000 calls a month | 200 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | stored | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars | anyone | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
Product details
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 20 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Web search without a search subscription, returning titles, URLs and snippets. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
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| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
|---|---|
| You get | 1 request |
| Enough for | 1 call |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, lang, tbs |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Pay per call |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
position, title, URL, snippet, query, status, billed