# Scrapingdog, free: Web search API

> Using the Universal Search API, you can scrape various search engine results without worrying about proxy rotation and data parsing.

Scrapingdog's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns none of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
We rank 399 plans by price. [Octen's top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [ContextFetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-tavily-search-tavily-compatible-search-basic/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/free
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdog.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/universal-search-api
- Sold by: Scrapingdog (https://www.scrapingdog.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 60 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Using the Universal Search API, you can scrape various search engine results without worrying about proxy rotation and data parsing.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: While 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 get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 5 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: country, language
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## Scrapingdog's plans (56)

- [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/40-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/90-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/200-monthly/llms.txt): $1.333 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/350-monthly/llms.txt): $1.167 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/500-monthly/llms.txt): $1.111 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.053 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $1,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/1500-monthly/llms.txt): $1.034 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.952 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/2500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.909 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.923 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $4,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/4000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.889 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $5,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/5000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.833 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $7,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/7000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.757 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $8,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/8000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.727 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $9,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/9000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.706 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $10,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/10000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.678 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $12,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/12000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $14,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/14000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.651 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $16,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/16000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.64 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $18,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/18000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.621 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $20,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/20000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.606 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $22,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/22000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.595 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $24,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/24000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.578 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $26,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/26000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.565 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $28,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/28000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.554 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $30,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/30000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.545 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $400 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/400-yearly/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $2,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/2000-yearly/llms.txt): $1.111 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $3,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/3500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.972 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.926 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $10,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/10000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.877 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $15,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/15000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.862 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $20,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/20000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.794 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $25,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/25000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.758 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $30,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/30000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.769 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $40,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/40000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.741 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $50,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/50000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.694 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $60,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/60000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $70,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/70000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.631 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $80,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/80000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.606 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $90,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/90000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.588 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $100,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/100000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.565 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $120,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/120000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.556 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $140,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/140000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.543 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $160,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/160000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.533 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $180,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/180000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.517 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $200,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/200000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.505 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/220000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.495 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $240,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/240000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.482 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $260,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/260000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.471 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $280,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/280000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.462 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.455 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapingdog, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

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

- `GET /search`: [Scrapingdog, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)

## Scrapingdog's APIs (12)

- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /baidu/search/](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-baidu-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /brave/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-brave-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /yahoo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-yahoo-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /google, Google Light Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-google-google-light-search-api/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /google, Google Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-google-google-search-api/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /google, Google Search API, advanced search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-google-google-search-api-advanced-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: SERP API pricing, 56 plans, GET /google, Google Search API, mobile search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-google-google-search-api-mobile-search/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: Instagram post API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: Instagram profile API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web search API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: TikTok profile API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: X profile API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: YouTube channel API pricing, 56 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/scrapingdog/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-premium-proxy/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-premium-proxy-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, stealth mode](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-stealth-mode/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, with country](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-with-country/llms.txt)
- [Scrapingdog: web scraping API pricing, 56 plans, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/free-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt)

## Scrapingdog: web search API alternatives

- [treg, top-up from $10, Top-up of $10 to $49, POST /call/treg.web.search.news](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-10-top-up-of-10-to-49-post-call-treg-web-search-news/llms.txt): $0.418 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.442 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [browserfoundry, $99.99 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v2/search/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $0.444 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $100, Pay as you go, +10% on top-ups from $100, POST /v1/search, Search, lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-100-pay-as-you-go-10-on-top-ups-from-100-post-v1-search-search-lite/llms.txt): $0.455 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/universal-search-api
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/linkedin-scraper-api/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/terms/