# Search Router, free: Web search API

> Search the web and return structured results with titles, URLs, domains, a short content blurb, and an info_context field — newline-separated passages selected as relevant to the query, suitable for richer LLM context than a single snippet.

Search Router's web search API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We rank 511 plans by price. [browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/29-99-monthly-essential-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search-router/free
- [Best web search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://search-router.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://search-router.com/api/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://search-router.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://search-router.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Search Router (https://search-router.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Image search

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and return structured results with titles, URLs, domains, a short content blurb, and an info_context field — newline-separated passages selected as relevant to the query, suitable for richer LLM context than a single snippet.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: search-router.com grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to access and use the Services during the applicable subscription term or service period, solely as permitted by these Terms. [...] Your use of third-party content may be subject to separate terms, licenses, robots directives, contractual restrictions, or applicable law. You are responsible for evaluating whether you may store, reproduce, republish, scrape, index, or otherwise use third-party content. [...] You may not, and may not permit others to: Resell, sublicense, lease, or provide unauthorized access to the Services, Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to discover source code, models, ranking methods, prompts, or non-public system logic, Use the Services to build or benchmark a competing service, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law, Interfere with or disrupt the Services, including by bypassing rate limits or security controls, Introduce malware, harmful code, or abusive traffic, Use the Services in violation of law, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or contractual restrictions, Submit content you do not have the right to submit, Use the Services to facilitate spam, phishing, fraud, harassment, illegal scraping, or other harmful activity, [...] You acknowledge and agree that search-router.com may collect, store, copy, modify, analyze, reproduce, distribute, disclose, transfer, share with third parties, and otherwise use Customer Input, Output, and related usage data for any lawful business purpose, including but not limited to: [...] Training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and improving machine learning or artificial intelligence models and systems, Sharing data with affiliates, contractors, subprocessors, partners, model providers, infrastructure providers, analytics providers, and other third parties, [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits
- Enough for: 2,000 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_type "web". Optional: num_results
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone legally able to enter into a binding contract

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, search type, credits remaining, response time, page title, URL, domain, snippet, relevant passages

## Search Router's plans (2)

- [Search Router, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search-router/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search Router, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search-router/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

## Search Router's calls (1)

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

## Search Router's APIs (2)

- [Search Router: image search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/search-router/free/llms.txt)
- [Search Router: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search-router/free/llms.txt)

## Search Router: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry, free, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/free-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Search1API, free, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/free-free-post-ask/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://search-router.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://search-router.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://search-router.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing