# ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/web/research/once: Web search API

> SML Web Research is an AI-agent web research API that performs live web search plus safe source extraction and returns source-backed evidence when upstream retrieval succeeds.

ScriptMasterLabs's x402 pay per call plan for the web search API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ScriptMasterLabs's docs list 1: Text.
We haven't run ScriptMasterLabs through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 816 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.00 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 55% of the 816 plans.
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-research-once
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://squeezeos-api.onrender.com/api/web/research/once`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/web-research-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScriptMasterLabs (https://scriptmasterlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: SML Web Research is an AI-agent web research API that performs live web search plus safe source extraction and returns source-backed evidence when upstream retrieval succeeds.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use our services to violate law, infringe rights, gain unauthorized access, distribute malware, interfere with service operation, evade usage limits, abuse payment systems, or misrepresent identity or authorization. [...] Third-party names and services remain subject to their respective owners' terms.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: search_count, fetch_count, max_chars
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/web/research/once

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base (x402)

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, title, URL, snippet, source text, product, status, accepted delivery, payment model, price in USDC

## ScriptMasterLabs's plans (2)

- [ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/web/research/once](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-research-once/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ScriptMasterLabs, $0.03 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/0-03-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## ScriptMasterLabs's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /api/web/research/once`: [ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/web/research/once](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-research-once/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/web-search`: [ScriptMasterLabs, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /x402/web-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-search/llms.txt)

## ScriptMasterLabs's APIs (4)

- [ScriptMasterLabs: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-scrape/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/web/read-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-read-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/web/extract-once](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-extract-once/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /x402/web-fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-fetch/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, GET /x402/web-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-x402-web-markdown/llms.txt)
- [ScriptMasterLabs: web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/web/research/once](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scriptmasterlabs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-web-research-once/llms.txt)

## ScriptMasterLabs: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $30 pack, Growth Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/30-pack-growth-pack-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search and crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-and-crawl/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [AnySearch, $3 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anysearch/3-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scriptmasterlabs.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scriptmasterlabs.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://scriptmasterlabs.com/web-research-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://squeezeos-api.onrender.com/api/web/research/info?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://squeezeos-api.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing