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ScrapingDuck pricing and alternatives: web search API

ScrapingDuck's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 292 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and ScrapingDuck are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingDuck's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/web/search ScrapingDuck's only call
API: Web search API ScrapingDuck's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/web/search. You can also send country, language, count, offset, safesearch and freshness. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingDuck: web search API alternatives

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

ScrapingDuck, €149 monthlyCrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/openwebui/searchContext.dev, $9,500 yearlytreg, top-up from $200, Top-up of $200 to $2,000, +15% bonus, POST /call/treg.web.search.newsbrowserfoundry, $996 yearly, Startup, POST /api/v2/search/fast
$ per 1,000 searches$0.335$0.30$0.317$0.364$0.369
Completeness33%17%17%0%33%
Billingmonthlypay firstyearlypay firstyearly
Pay€149$3,750$9,500$200$996
Enough for500,000 calls a month12,500,000 calls2,500,000 calls a monthabout 549,621 calls225,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or older using it for a business or professionanyone aged 18 or overanyone 16 or over, topping up by hand (automatic top-ups earn no bonus)anyone who creates an account with an email address

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 2026-10-28.

  1. scrapingduck.com
  2. scrapingduck.com/docs/performs-a-web-search-and-returns-unified-results-from-searxng-tinyfish-or-brave-search-44734730e0.md
  3. scrapingduck.com/python-web-scraping-with-scrapingduck
  4. scrapingduck.com/terms-of-use

Product details

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

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • 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
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPerforms a web search and returns unified results from SearXNG, TinyFish or Brave Search.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the ScrapingDuck API for any unlawful, harmful, or malicious activities, including but not limited to: Scraping personally identifiable information (PII) without a legal basis or consent. Infringing intellectual property rights, such as copyrights or trademarks. Conducting denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or otherwise imposing an unreasonable load on the infrastructure of third-party websites. Bypassing security measures (such as CAPTCHAs) in a manner that violates a website's terms of service. Distributing malware or engaging in any form of hacking. [...] You are responsible for reviewing and complying with the terms of service of any website or data source you access using the ScrapingDuck API.
Plan
Pay€0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median3.10 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: country, language, count, offset, safesearch, freshness
MethodGET
Path/v1/web/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, engine used, page title, URL, description, page date, thumbnail, search suggestions, more results available

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