# ReadFetch, pay as you go: Web search API

> Web search without a search subscription, returning titles, URLs and snippets.

ReadFetch's web search API on its Pay per call plan. It costs $5.00 per 1,000 searches. ReadFetch's docs list 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run ReadFetch through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](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/readfetch/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://readfetch.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://readfetch.com/v1/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://readfetch.com/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ReadFetch (https://readfetch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Web search without a search subscription, returning titles, URLs and snippets.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, lang, tbs
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call
- 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

## ReadFetch's plans (1)

- [ReadFetch, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/readfetch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [ReadFetch, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/readfetch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ReadFetch's APIs (2)

- [ReadFetch: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/readfetch/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-page/llms.txt)
- [ReadFetch: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/readfetch/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ReadFetch: web search API alternatives

- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-standard/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (advanced)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/web/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/hyperbrowser/30-monthly-startup-post-api-web-search-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [pure.md, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/pure-md/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## 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.

- https://readfetch.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://readfetch.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://readfetch.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://readfetch.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://readfetch.com/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing