# Riveter, free: Web search API

> Run a web search and get structured results back synchronously — the response is the run with the results already in `output` (no polling, no webhook).

Riveter's Free Plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Riveter's docs list 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Text.
We haven't run Riveter 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/riveter/free
- [Web search API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.riveterhq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.riveterhq.com/v1/quick_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.riveterhq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.riveterhq.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#tag/tools/post/quick_search
- Sold by: Riveter (https://www.riveterhq.com?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: Enrich · Build dataset · Generate more rows · Build configured list · Create extraction · Run extraction · Create monitor · Search agent · Scrape

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Run a web search and get structured results back synchronously — the response is the run with the results already in `output` (no polling, no webhook).

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: By using this website, you warrant on behalf of yourself, your users, and other parties you represent that you will not: modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on this website, remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from any materials and software on this website, transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server, knowingly or negligently use this website or any of its associated services in a way that abuses or disrupts our networks or any other service Riveter AI, Inc. provides, use this website or its associated services to transmit or publish any harassing, indecent, obscene, fraudulent, or unlawful material, use this website or its associated services in violation of any applicable laws or regulations, use this website in conjunction with sending unauthorized advertising or spam, harvest, collect, or gather user data without the user's consent, or use this website or its associated services in such a way that may infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other rights of third parties.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 6,250 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: date_start, date_end, run_key, estimate_cost, max_credits
- Method: POST
- Path: /quick_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, knowledge graph, run ID, run status, credits used, credits remaining, app URL, result URL, started at, finished at

## Riveter's plans (7)

- [Riveter, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/15-pack/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, $30 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/30-pack/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, $60 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/60-pack/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, $120 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/120-pack/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.996 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Riveter, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

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

- `POST /quick_search`: [Riveter, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/free/llms.txt)

## Riveter's APIs (2)

- [Riveter: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/riveter/free/llms.txt)
- [Riveter: web search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/riveter/free/llms.txt)

## Riveter: web search API alternatives

- [Scrapall, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapall/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.998 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [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

## 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://docs.riveterhq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.riveterhq.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://riveterhq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.riveterhq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.riveterhq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.riveterhq.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.riveterhq.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing