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Scrapingdog pricing and alternatives: web search API

Scrapingdog's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 399 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scrapingdog's 56 plans
Call: GET /search Scrapingdog's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Scrapingdog's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 5 calls.
  • One call. You send query to GET /search. You can also send country and language. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapingdog: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Scrapingdog's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Scrapingdog's.

Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearlytreg, top-up from $10, Top-up of $10 to $49, POST /call/treg.web.search.newsDataBlue, $7,689 yearlybrowserfoundry, $99.99 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v2/search/fastContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /v1/search, Search, lite
$ per 1,000 searches$0.455$0.418$0.442$0.444$0.455
Completeness0%0%33%33%50%
Billingyearlypay firstyearlymonthlypay first
Pay$300,000$10$7,689$99.99$100
Enough for55,000,000 calls a monthabout 23,896 calls1,450,000 calls a month225,000 calls a month220,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownstored
Who can get itanyoneanyone 16 or overanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. scrapingdog.com/documentation/
  2. scrapingdog.com/documentation/universal-search-api
  3. scrapingdog.com/linkedin-scraper-api/
  4. scrapingdog.com/pricing/
  5. scrapingdog.com/terms/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 60 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUsing the Universal Search API, you can scrape various search engine results without worrying about proxy rotation and data parsing.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataWhile your paid subscription is active, Scrapingdog grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide license to access, store, display, analyze, and redistribute, commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data returned by Scrapingdog’s API (“Licensed Data”) [...] You may present, transform, or combine the Licensed Data in any manner, provided that you do not add or alter data points in a way that would misrepresent the information actually returned by Scrapingdog’s API or cause harm to third parties [...] You agree not to use any data obtained through Scrapingdog in a manner that (a) discloses private or sensitive personal information, or (b) harms individual or public sentiments, violates applicable laws, or otherwise causes injury.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for5 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: country, language
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result date, organic result sitelinks

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