# ScrapeGraphAI, free: Web search API

> Search the web and extract structured data from results in one call.

ScrapeGraphAI's web search API on its Free Plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
The cheapest of the 334 plans we rank by price is [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Firecrawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-scale/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapegraphai.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapegraphai.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/api-reference/endpoint/search
- Sold by: ScrapeGraphAI (https://scrapegraphai.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Extra fields: extracted data, raw model output, prompt tokens, completion tokens: +$0.00
- Also pays for: Create monitor: 1 monitor · Start crawl: 1 concurrent crawl · from the same budget: Scrape · Extract · Start crawl · Create monitor

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and extract structured data from results in one call.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: As between you and ScrapeGraphAI, you retain your rights in Customer Data. We do not claim ownership of your Customer Data or Outputs. [...] You may use the service only for lawful, authorized, and responsible purposes. You may not, and may not allow anyone else to: use the service to violate any law, regulation, court order, contract, third-party terms, privacy right, intellectual-property right, or other legal obligation, bypass or attempt to bypass logins, paywalls, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, robots restrictions, access controls, anti-bot systems, or technical measures without authorization, collect, infer, process, or store personal data, sensitive personal data, health data, biometric data, children's data, payment data, or government identifiers without a lawful basis and all required notices and consents, perform credential stuffing, account takeover, card testing, spam, phishing, malware distribution, vulnerability scanning, denial-of-service activity, or other abusive or security-harmful activity, scrape or process content to create illegal discrimination, unlawful surveillance, deceptive profiling, or decisions that require human review or regulated compliance controls, overload, disrupt, damage, or degrade ScrapeGraphAI, a target website, a third-party service, or the experience of other users, resell, sublicense, or provide the service to third parties in a way that hides or misrepresents your responsibility for their use, use the service to develop a competing service by copying our APIs, systems, documentation, or user experience, except to the extent applicable law prohibits this restriction. [...] If you use the service through a free plan or other no-charge access, you agree that ScrapeGraphAI may use Free Plan Data for scientific research, product research, model evaluation, model training, model fine-tuning, benchmark development, safety improvement, abuse detection, quality improvement, and service improvement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: about 83 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.66 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: numResults, prompt, schema, format, mode, timeRange, locationGeoCode, allowedTypes, processors[].type, processors[].maxPages, fetchConfig.mode, fetchConfig.stealth, fetchConfig.headers, fetchConfig.cookies, fetchConfig.scrolls, fetchConfig.wait, fetchConfig.timeout, fetchConfig.country
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, web results, URL, page title, page content, pages requested, pages scraped

## ScrapeGraphAI's plans (8)

- [ScrapeGraphAI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/5-pack/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $40 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/40-pack/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $150 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/150-pack/llms.txt): $18.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/20-monthly/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/100-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/500-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

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

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

## ScrapeGraphAI's APIs (2)

- [ScrapeGraphAI: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeGraphAI: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/free-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeGraphAI: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML with stealth](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/free-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html-with-stealth/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeGraphAI: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /api/scrape, Scrape markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/free-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeGraphAI: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /api/scrape, Scrape markdown with stealth](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/free-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-markdown-with-stealth/llms.txt)

## ScrapeGraphAI: web search API alternatives

- [CrawlForge, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlforge/399-monthly/llms.txt): $3.99 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/geekflare/10-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Olostep, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/olostep/200-pack/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Mojeek, top-up, Business](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/mojeek/top-up-business/llms.txt): $4.00 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 2026-10-28.

- https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/api-reference/endpoint/search.md
- https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/api-reference/errors.md
- https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/api-reference/introduction.md
- https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/services/search
- https://scrapegraphai.com
- https://scrapegraphai.com/pricing
- https://scrapegraphai.com/terms