# Scrapa, free: Web search API

> Ask the web a question and get ranked results back.

Scrapa's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Scrapa's docs list 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Text. 1 costs extra: Answer.
We haven't run Scrapa through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 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/scrapa/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrapa.app/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scrapa (https://scrapa.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓ costs more

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Extra fields: answer: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape a page · List a site's URLs · Start a batch · Start a browser session

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Ask the web a question and get ranked results back.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The acceptable-use policy is part of these terms. In short: do not point this API at what the policy forbids, do not use it to collect personal data you have no basis to hold, do not resell raw proxy bandwidth, and do not try to reach anything on our network other than the API itself.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of the billing month, plan credits do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, topic, timeRange, includeDomains, answer, proxy.pool, proxy.server, proxy.country
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, topic, engine used, proxy pool, bytes, cached, position, URL, page title, snippet, credits used, credits remaining, request ID, published at

## Scrapa's plans (6)

- [Scrapa, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/19-pack/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/79-pack/llms.txt): $3.16 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.52 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.307 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

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

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

## Scrapa's APIs (4)

- [Scrapa: image search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)

## Scrapa: 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
- [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
- [CrawlerData, $50 pack, Starter, GET /customsearch/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlerdata/50-pack-starter-get-customsearch-v1/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 2026-11-06.

- https://api.scrapa.app/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing